She'll be coming round the mountain on a 1403. You had to disengage the
tractor clutch and
wind the paper through slowly by hand.
Radio music was played by tuning to the medium wave and placing the radio on
the processor
unit, towards the front left.
And there was the other MUSIC - OS/360's pr
> Wasn't MUSIC McGill's predecessor to TSO?
Another MUSIC.
Machine Utilization Statistics and Information Collection. Wrote to SYS1.ACCTA
and SYS1.ACCTB
alternately. I'm not sure what data it collected - it was just a flaming
nuisance to me. I
think it only collected at end of step, but it d
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>And there was the other MUSIC - OS/360's precursor to SMF.
Wasn't MUSIC McGill's predecessor to TSO? I thought that the
predecessor to SMF was IEFWAD.
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>And there was the othe
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computer students take card punch class, just so we'd know what it was
like in case they were still in use in business when we graduated..
This was in the early 80's.
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What I remember it was
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In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 11/14/2006
at 10:37 AM, Phil Payne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>And there was the other MUSIC - OS/360's precursor to SMF.
Wasn't MUSIC McGill's predecessor to TSO? I thought that the
Yes, and 1-part paper gave a sharper "steel band" effect while 5-part
was closer to a steam-calliope playing in a circus tent! Ahh, those
old chain 1403s..
In my early Service Bureau days ('66/'67) we regularly did processing
for the various wool brokers (and for the Wheat Board too), and some
--
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
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
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.
Back about 1966, Carnegie-Mellon Univ had an RCA RACE mass storage unit,
with a computer acting as a storag
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