[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

[Cory Heisterkamp]

Pete, Jeff, Jim,

These are the stories I like to hear. Thanks for taking the time to put
them out there!  -Cory


On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 9:55 PM, Pete Lancashire <pete at petelancashire.com>wrote:

>    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
>
>
>
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