16 Jul
2008
16 Jul
'08
1:56 p.m.
Diane Bruce wrote:
I've done that to do a file transfer before.
Both ways. Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill both ways. etc. etc.
Except I wasn't kidding. I had an IBM mainframe with only SNA
capabilities, and a Honeywell-Bull machine with no network interfaces at
all. I used the lineprinter on the Bull to print, drum-scanned it into
an IBM PS/2, then used a Microchannel 3270 emulation card as the main
console of the IBM mainframe to transfer the file to the mainframe.
Took a while, but worked just fine.
Made a good pile of money on that one.
Peace... Sridhar
Nah, a Rube
Goldberg inspired solution would have included paper cups,
string, an acoustic coupler or two, several amps, one of those dancing
ipod dog things, a fan, a spoon, a ball, several springs, a toy monkey
(or two), and to keep it on topic (barely) a paper tape puncher.
. . . and the
printer output feeding straight into the Automatic Document
Feeder of the OCR scanner?