Btw... The inhouse system wasn't WYSIWYG, it used a standard font with markup to specify attributes. The back end system translated that to the proper fonts. The fonts were custom designed.
Sent from my iPhone > On Mar 13, 2019, at 11:49, Paul Koning <paulkon...@comcast.net> wrote: > > Early 1979. I worked on TMS-11 from summer 1978 to summer 1980, as > "firefighter" -- traveling on-site support and software repair. I was > scheduled for CMS-11 training early 1979, but instead the Valley News > developed a serious bug so I was sent there to learn on the spot. :-) > > Supposedly the Valley News was one of the biggest classified systems in the > country, 50+ pages of ads on the peak day. DEC also had a system in > Melbourne, Australia (I think) at News Corp, which was somewhat bigger still. > Or perhaps that was a bid that didn't turn into a sale? Not sure. Still, > those systems didn't have 300 terminals, the likely limit was 100 or so I > think. So if you had 330 I can see why that would be custom. TMS-11 used > 11/70 systems running IAS (trimmed down to look like RSX-11/D, the > timesharing part yanked out), with either VT61/t and/or VT71 terminals. The > latter have an LSI-11 inside to do full file local editing. > > There was Typeset-10, I'm not sure how many customers that had but they were > big. Chicago Tribune, I think? > > It was interesting to do field work for customers who need their system to be > very reliable because they have to produce "product" every single day. > Pretty amazing to get a job like that fresh out of college. > > paul > > >> On Mar 13, 2019, at 2:37 PM, Wayne S <wayne.su...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> >> Paul, what was the timeframe when you worked on the system in Van Nuys? >> >> I worked for a large newspaper starting in 1978 and they made their own 330 >> seat Classified Sales Entry system because there wasn't anything out there >> that was big enough. >> It used Zentec ZMS-90 programmable terminals feeding Series /1 mini's that >> then fed IBM 3032 mainframe. >> >> I was wondering if DEC had that system available during that time. >> >> Sent from my iPhone >
