Author: JPVRoff
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 11:00 am (GMT 5.5)
First ('81) would have been an Itel 370/158 equivalent (no idea what the name actually was). But I remember the NatSemi guys coming in one day and replacing all the Itel signs with NatSemi. I used to volunteer to stay for the last jobs on the night shift so I could have fun writing programs. And if I felt tired, I'd rip off all but the last sheet of paper on the 1403 printers and go to sleep on the cover (which would then tip you off as soon as a print job started). Or, you could write "music" for the printers based on the timing of the hammer hits of this little impact printer.
I think the last one I saw (I don't count Unix or Tandem) would have been a 3090 (I think), just before we shipped everything off to Dallas for an oil company, in the first couple of years of this century. Currently working on US-, Sydney- and Wellington-based mainframes of various descriptions.
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Regards,
Jonathan
"You cannot build a fool-proof system, as fools are so ingenious"
Posted: Fri May 20, 2016 11:00 am (GMT 5.5)
First ('81) would have been an Itel 370/158 equivalent (no idea what the name actually was). But I remember the NatSemi guys coming in one day and replacing all the Itel signs with NatSemi. I used to volunteer to stay for the last jobs on the night shift so I could have fun writing programs. And if I felt tired, I'd rip off all but the last sheet of paper on the 1403 printers and go to sleep on the cover (which would then tip you off as soon as a print job started). Or, you could write "music" for the printers based on the timing of the hammer hits of this little impact printer.
I think the last one I saw (I don't count Unix or Tandem) would have been a 3090 (I think), just before we shipped everything off to Dallas for an oil company, in the first couple of years of this century. Currently working on US-, Sydney- and Wellington-based mainframes of various descriptions.
_________________
Regards,
Jonathan
"You cannot build a fool-proof system, as fools are so ingenious"