[email protected] (Ed Finnell) writes: > We were ESP for early GML and the little tin foil printers 42xx > somethings. IIRC SCRIPT and Waterloo were similar but diverged at the > MACRO level starting with GML. Dr Goldfarb used to be one of the > 'highlight' sessions at SHARE and was entertaining as he was > informative. Probably worst engineered thing I ever saw was the > 6610(?) printer where the nixie tubes were in series with the printer > memory.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#41 Unix systems and Serialization mechanism http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#42 GML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#47 GML http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#48 GML 6670 was basically ibm copier3 with computer interface ... allowed things like duplexing (print on both sides of paper). sjr enhanced it for all-points-addressable ... i.e. SHERPA or APA6670 (not just print character fonts ... but also images). 6670s were deployed around bldg. 28 in departmental areas. the 6670 had 2nd paper drawer ... and vm driver would print a "separator" page using the altnerate paper ... assuming it had been loaded with different colored paper (somewhat analogous to using red-striped cards for JCL on card decks ... made it easier for operator to separate out large trays of cards into individual jobs). sjr modified the 6670 vm driver to include random selected item from a couple different source files ... to help make the separator page a little more interesting. one file used was reformated ibm jargon file ... another file was a "6670 sayings" file with misc. collected items from various sources. i've mentioned this recently having taken the files and converted for use for mail signature/taglines http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010k.html#45 Taglines one incident involved a corporate security audit facility and there was some conflict with the auditors over large collection of demo programs (they considered games) that they demanded be removed (counter argument was that demo programs were very valuable asset and the decision should be a management decision not an auditor decision). In an after hours sweep of the bldg by the auditors looking for unsecured (left out) classified material ... they came across some output on departmentl 6670 that had seperator page with: [Business Maxims:] Signs, real and imagined, which belong on the walls of the nation's offices: 1) Never Try to Teach a Pig to Sing; It Wastes Your Time and It Annoys the Pig. 2) Sometimes the Crowd IS Right. 3) Auditors Are the People Who Go in After the War Is Lost and Bayonet the Wounded. 4) To Err Is Human -- To Forgive Is Not Company Policy. ... snip ... they complained the next day, that we had purposefully placed it to ridicule them. One friday, somebody in POK sent me a bogus corporate memorandum concerning rules for password selection ... which I forwarded to several people in bldg. 28. Apparently over the week, somebody printed a copy using on departmental 6670 loaded with corporate letterhead paper and placed it on all the bldg. bulletin boards. Monday morning numerous people reading the memo didn't realize it was bogus ... and later that day complained loudly ... resulting in new policy that blank corporate letterhead paper had to be always kept locked up. Old post with reproduction of the bogus corporate memorandum: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#52 A beautiful morning in AFM http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001d.html#53 April Fools Day old email about doing apa6670/sherpa demo: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#email820304 misc. passed posts mentioning apa6670/sherpa http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005f.html#48 1403 printers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#44 Materiel and graft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006p.html#49 Materiel and graft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006q.html#1 Materiel and graft http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007g.html#27 The Complete April Fools' Day RFCs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007u.html#72 Parse/Template Function http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008d.html#51 It has been a long time since Ihave seen a printer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#68 Blinkenlights http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008o.html#69 Blinkenlights http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010c.html#74 Apple iPad -- this merges with folklore http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010e.html#43 Boyd's Briefings http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#59 IBM 029 service manual -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
