[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

[Pete Lancashire]

My stint at "Big B" aka Burroughs was short but being young my "inocence"
allowed me to snoop around a lot and got to know quite a few of the
oldtimes. I was 19 they were old like 40 :-)

>From what I was told the 5500 did start its life with a 35 KSR but the 33
came out and the 5500 shipped with a 33. I do know the 3500 and 4700 had
33's for their SPO or as the rest of the word knew them the console.

As most of us know on the list, even though the 33 was considered a light
duty machine, properly maintained (oiled and greased) they had no problem
going past their MTBF's.

For a bit of fuzzy memory a busy mainframe running 24/5 to 24/7 would go
through a rolll of paper in a couple days, but there were a lot of
lines with no more then 10 characters printed and a lot of blanks lines or
paper pulled and wrapped around a deck of cards.

Great memories of having both a fully configured 4700 and a 2x2 way 6700
(CRT console) to myself on graveyard, then on one job running
diagnostics by myself on a 7700 with a ***** for the NSA :-), talk about
geek heaven :-)

-pete make that memories from long ago


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Cory Heisterkamp <coryheisterkamp at gmail.com
> wrote:

> A few more entries in the 'What computers used an M28 as console
> equipment' category...
>
> 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,
> but the UNIVAC III uses the guts of an M28 sunken into its sleek,
> formica-topped operator console.   -Cory
>
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