Re(2): [SunRescue] Offerings

[Tim Hauber]

rescue at sunhelp.org,Internet writes:
>
>The machine with the paper tape, magnetic cards, real core, and vacuum 
>tubes was an NCR 315 "mainframe."  The "console printer" was an IBM 
>Selectric typewriter with its actuators wired into the desk-sized 
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>business on the 28th.
>
>I took a holiday from the computer biz after leaving the bank, only
>getting 
>back into it in the late 70s.  I'll save the stories of those hacks for 
>another time.
>
>-Shel

Oh my!  One of my favorite pastimes is finding people who have been around
longer than I and cajoling them into spewing history.  Shel, you are a joy
to meet.  You are keeping me from the work I get paid for.

 I saw a similar, but smaller arrangement in an office I cleaned while in
college, then saw it lying in ruins in the bottom of a deep dumpster. 
Later I acquired a standalone IBM Mag card  typewriter, didn't know what
thecard system was called.  That behemoth died a scavenged death because I
didn't feel like picking it up to throw it away.  The fun part about that
machine, and I am sure the system you worked on, was the typewriters
started as selectrics, and the modifications in mine were hand wrapped
wire wrap boards, and the mechanical parts (there was a little pneumatic
damper on the carriage, and some solenoids and linkages)  still showed the
shop markings.  Apparently they were all one offs, hand done.  They must
have cost an absolute gazillion dollars. 

Tim 

"The Microsoft Virtual Machine is no longer supported by Microsoft."
http://www.microsoft.com/mac/ie/ie45faq.htm
hmmm....