atex system in Houston

Early 1979. I worked on TMS-11 from summer 1978 to summer 1980, as "firefighter" -- traveling on-site support and software repair. I was scheduled for CMS-11 training early 1979, but instead the Valley News developed a serious bug so I was sent there to learn on the spot. :-) Supposedly the Valley News was one of the biggest classified systems in the country, 50+ pages of ads on the peak day. DEC also had a system in Melbourne, Australia (I think) at News Corp, which was somewhat bigger still. Or perhaps that was a bid that didn't turn into a sale? Not sure. Still, those systems didn't have 300 terminals, the likely limit was 100 or so I think. So if you had 330 I can see why that would be custom. TMS-11 used 11/70 systems running IAS (trimmed down to look like RSX-11/D, the timesharing part yanked out), with either VT61/t and/or VT71 terminals. The latter have an LSI-11 inside to do full file local editing. There was Typeset-10, I'm not sure how many customers that had but they were big. Chicago Tribune, I think? It was interesting to do field work for customers who need their system to be very reliable because they have to produce "product" every single day. Pretty amazing to get a job like that fresh out of college. paul