[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

[Michael O'Day]

I worked at Burroughs in the early 80's (BMG not systems), and when we moved out of our office space in Hickory Hills (west of Chicago) there were several M28 SPO printers that were tagged as spares that evaporated in the move They were scheduled to hit the dumpster, wouldn't be surprised if they missed.


 
Mike - N9ODM


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________________________________
 From: Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net>
To: Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com> 
Cc: greenkeys <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2013 3:34 PM
Subject: Re: [GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes
 

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:

> Just reading through a few issues of Datamation 1961, the Burroughs B-5000
> features a table top model prominently for operator I/O (not a skin-tight,
> either), and if I hadn't read it in the manual, I wouldn't have known it,

That may have been dummied-up for the photo.  They used a 28 RO tabletop
as the console printer on the B-220 - it sat on a stand of their own make
that was full of relays.  The B-5500 we had at UCSC had a 33 KSR for the
console device, and there was some mention in the maintenance docs about
it replacing an earlier electric typewriter, believe it was Smith-Corona.
A Burroughs photograph of the period shows the electric typewriter.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/249/946
I'm not sure when one was actually delivered.  Believe all the B-5000s
were converted to 5500s, which involved a little additional processor
logic and removal of the magnetic drums, with disks being available.

> but the UNIVAC III uses the guts of an M28 sunken into its sleek,
> formica-topped operator console.   -Cory
> 
Was it a 28 or a 35?  I remember seeing one once, but am not at all
clear on which machine it was using.

jhhaynes at earthlink dot net
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