--- On Sun, 10/17/10, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote:
Lynn: Somewhere in the mid to late 70's I was given access to a MVS system that ran somew where in IBM (possibly west coast but who knew or cared). The purpose of the access was to see if TSO session manager gave us hardcopy for TSO. We had quite a bill from some ts vendor (sorry do not remember the name) that basically supported hardcopy terminals. My mine is fuzzy but I know the 2741 was "probably" the only real device that IBM supported as a hardcopy device. Once I showed them that they could use TSO session manager for hardcopy they changed their story and all of a sudden needed some type of graphics for hardcopy and I had to say "NO" we can't do that. Their need was probably valid but I could not promise something like graphics hardcopy. I am talking high quality stuff not GDDM stuff. That was the final blow and a few years later they shut us down. If I remember correctly TSO session manager was either writen at Boeing by IBM or by Boeing people. I first heard about it at SHARE and unfortunetly at that time it was not cheap (couple hundred a month I think) so we could not afford to buy it and test it out so IBM let me have access to some system that ran it. It was a sort of a pain as I had to walk over to IBM in Chicago which at that time was a solid 6 blocks away. But the fun more than made up for any inconvenience. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
