[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

[Cory Heisterkamp]

Ah ha! For those without a Datamation hard copy, here's a pic of the 5000 setup. Scroll to the very bottom of the page.

http://www.cs.virginia.edu/brochure/images/manuals/b5000/brochure/b5000_broch.html


On Jul 16, 2013, at 3:34 PM, Jim Haynes <jhhaynes at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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