> On Jan 19, 2017, at 10:51 AM, John Mattson <johnmattson...@gmail.com> wrote: > > GTE Data Services in Marina del Rey, CA was still getting paper tape > out put from telephone local offices in 1982. Basically the system worked > fine, and while they were scheduled for replacement, they figured "If it > ain't broke, don't fix it." Tapes came from the local offices and were > read into the IBM and/or Amdahl machines where were running MVS 3.2 if I > remember correctly. If Howard Thompson or any of those folks are lurking > out there, please correct me. I distinctly remember MVS 3.7 and 3.8 and we were early users. Ed > > But even more ancient were the plug boards which were used for other > purposes. There was one lady, Sono Obuchi, who was the only one who knew > how to program them. I stayed as far away from them as I could. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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