[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

2024-03-18 Thread Sellam Abraham via cctalk
On Mon, Mar 18, 2024 at 5:09 PM Wayne S via cctalk wrote: > Fyi, if you have small hands you can get work as a hand model. E.G. > Holding a bottle of liquor makes it look big. > I think that also works in porn. I played Steve Wozniak's hands in the A Biography of the same (circa 2002-2003?)

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

2024-03-18 Thread Wayne S via cctalk
Fyi, if you have small hands you can get work as a hand model. E.G. Holding a bottle of liquor makes it look big. Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 18, 2024, at 03:55, Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk > wrote: > > In my first job,I was a trainee Field Engineer on a Univac 418 system at > Bell

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

2024-03-18 Thread Nigel Johnson Ham via cctalk
In my first job,I was a trainee Field Engineer on a Univac 418 system at Bell Canada which ran a store-and-forward message service to hundreds of Model 33 and 35 teletypes across the nation. Bell wanted to promote it, so they hired a movie producer. I happened to be on duty that day. The

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

2024-03-18 Thread Michael Thompson via cctalk
A photographer wandered around my workplace looking at all of the men's hands. They were doing a closeup shot and needed just hands. More than a little strange. On Mon, Mar 18, 2024, 6:15 AM Norman Jaffe via cctalk wrote: > I had the same experience while working for a (very) small company

[cctalk] Re: DEC Processor Books

2024-03-18 Thread Norman Jaffe via cctalk
I had the same experience while working for a (very) small company called Northwest Digital Research. I was asked to point to a big HP plotter that was running one of our programs... and the photograph wound up in our product brochure. Of course, I had nothing to do with that program...

[cctalk] Re: Two IBM 360's available in the UK

2024-03-18 Thread Dave Wade G4UGM via cctalk
> -Original Message- > From: Christian Corti via cctalk > Sent: Monday, March 18, 2024 8:03 AM > To: Adam Bradley via cctalk > Cc: Christian Corti > Subject: [cctalk] Re: Two IBM 360's available in the UK > > On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Adam Bradley wrote: > > Some of you may remember that

[cctalk] Bitsavers Zuse scans

2024-03-18 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
With great interest, I have seen that there are now scans for the Z23 (perhaps more coming soon :-) ). But I have to admit that I am so much disappointed of the quality. I mean, whoever scanned this all, did he have a single look at the output? I do this, for each of the many scans, may they be

[cctalk] Re: Two IBM 360's available in the UK

2024-03-18 Thread Christian Corti via cctalk
On Sat, 16 Mar 2024, Adam Bradley wrote: Some of you may remember that I (Adam) and another chap (Chris) rescued two IBM 360/20 systems out of an abandoned building in Nuremberg back in 2019 and brought them to the UK (our blog is here: https://www.ibm360.co.uk/). We have since basically found