Gee, I remember way way back when ... in my yuth we had a 1401 and some one places a small portable radio next to the CPU and there was a distict music pattern you could hear on the radio. Some has written some autocoder progarm which played the same music over and over again...The first music on a cpu...way back before PC's.
Yes, I wrote code for 7070-7090 and the 1400 series machines...those were really great days. --- Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --------------------------<snip>---------------------------- > Printers were fun sometimes. I once saw an IBM > engineer who'd been told > by his boss to "clean the 1043s". I came upon the > scene just after the > event, but it was obvious he dodn't know what he was > doing. The usual > way was to take the ribbon off, put cleaning paper > in the tractors > (funny stuff with a coating of tiny stiff nylon > bristles), close the > gate and run a test pattern while manually advancing > the cleaning paper. > The little bristles would prod out the slugs and > carry off the old ink. > > Not this guy. He opened the gate, took the ribbon > off. sprayed (a lot of > - must have been) tape cleaner on the train and > worked the gate > interlock with his thumb to power up the train. I > heard the scream. He > was standing there, completely black across the > waist, shading to grey > for inches above and below. The train had siezed and > the train motor > overload had tripped. > > It was a custom train, too. > -------------------------<unsnip>---------------------------------- > Did that myself once, in my early days. It wasn't a > custom train, just a > standard QN; but we ended up printing everything on > a TN train for > several weeks while we waited for train repairs. > Came out of my > paycheck. :-( > > And I don't believe there's ANYTHING to take that > ink out of a white shirt! > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ____________________________________________________________________________________ Sponsored Link Mortgage rates near 39yr lows. $510k for $1,698/mo. Calculate new payment! www.LowerMyBills.com/lre ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
