19 Dec
2006
19 Dec
'06
7:03 p.m.
On 19 Dec 2006 at 18:49, Billy Pettit wrote:
The ugliest, hands down winner, are the IBM early
machine drawing schematics
or logic manuals for the System 360. They were done by a badly timed line
printer with an exceptonally bad ribbon.
The early manuals for the Univac 1108 were like that--done on a drum
printer with a fuzzy ribbon that clearly hadn't been maintained. The
wavy lines would give you a headache. The binders were pretty good,
OTOH.
Many S/360 manuals look as if they were done on a Selectric
typewriter. At least they were legible.
Cheers,
Chuck