Re: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when

Rory,
Once upon a time, I would have been able to do that.
I still remember having to compute the number of tracks needed for a file
based on the record length, and making a new file have a record length that
was evenly divided into the number of bytes in a track.
Then there was the time when we had to find the C/H/R (cylinder, head,
record) for the // FILE statement.

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:23 PM, Bob Schwartz <rschwartz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

On 1/24/2013 1:39 PM, Rory Hewitt wrote:

It's worth checking out the photo of the 1404 printer on that
Wikipedia page
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_1403_Printer_opened.jpg) - it's
a work of art - all metal, with bakelite knobs. Makes my home printer

seem very flimsy.

I worked a 1403 for many a year. Beautiful things indeed. I wonder if
that's because IBM originally rented them out? My pair of 1403 N1
printers had a 'lines printed' counter on the back.
--buck

That was a great printer, a true work horse, even had hydraulic fluid in
the thing.
I remember the first time I had a huge stack of printed green bar reports
sitting on top of one.
And, it ran of paper and the darn top of the printer opened up on me, what
a mess.
New operator initiation ... LOL. Good days for sure though.
It was attached to an IBM 360/65 with an IBM type writer for the console.
Now, calculate the track capacity for a 3340/3348 model 70 disk drive ...
have fun.

Bob Schwartz
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