24 Mar
2013
24 Mar
'13
11:11 p.m.
On 03/24/2013 08:26 PM, Charlie Carothers wrote:
Thanks for that; it really brings back some fond
memories. I'm not sure
it was exactly that model, but we had one very similar as the "console
interface" attached to an SDS-910 back in the late 1960's. It might
have been the pin feed model someone else mentioned. The ones we
shipped to the field held up fine, but the few that we kept in the test
department really got beat up because we printed so much of what we read
from the attached OCR system. Seems like we had to have the IBM repair
guy out to fix one of them every week or so.
Also used on various S/360 models. The keyboard stayed locked as long
as the multiplexor channel was busy---but then, I've mentioned the fun
of chaining CCWs to make sure that the uppity operator will never be
able to type anything... :)
--Chuck