17 Sep
2013
17 Sep
'13
10:48 p.m.
On 9/16/13 8:40 PM, "Chuck Guzis" <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/16/2013 07:25 PM, Garrett Meiers wrote:
Yes, I remember working as an operator on a S/36 back in about 1979-80
that was upgraded to these. One of my favorite memories: an IBM FE shows
up in his white shirt and tie and, after working on the machine for a few
hours to install the upgrade, he was wearing a BLACK shirt. I learned
Does anyone know what systems these types of
cartridges were used in?
I have 10 of these, and they are all filled with IBM 8" Floppies as
shown.
I am curious, because they don't go to anything that came in the
large lot
of items I got last year, and have been a mystery since. I doubt they
are
useful for anything, but are pretty neat.
Garrett Meiers
www.linkedin.com/in/theunixguy
System/34 and System/36. Great for the RPG II-minded, not so much a
general-purpose system. Predecessor to the AS/400.
--Chuck
from him the trick of stuffing your tie in your breast
pocket to keep it
out of the works. Oh, and I had to help him finish the install.
-- Ian