[GreenKeys] [OT] MTS was Re: AB Drums

[Christian Gauger-Cosgrove]

On 28 October 2015 at 16:11, Jones, Douglas W <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote:
> On the MTS system (Michigan Terminal System, the best OS ever written for the IBM 360/67), the answer-back drum was routinely used during login.  Each terminal had a unique ID programmed into its drum, and the computer triggered the answer-back to get the user's location before the user logs in.
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> -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6asQjQmPM
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In regards to MTS, you can run a D6.0A MTS system on Hercules on your
PC if you felt so inclined:
<http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/mts-d60A>


> It's not an ASR-33 (it has a type-box like a Model 35, with a dial-up UCC that looks like it would fit on a Model 33, and in a narrow case like a model 33).  It uses the answer-back drum at 2:08 minutes into the video.
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That definitely looks like a standard Model 35 KSR, in the video, no?

Regards,
Christian