26 Sep
2007
26 Sep
'07
12:37 a.m.
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Roger Ivie wrote:
I was working for an accounting firm in Roosevelt, UT.
The B800
had a CPU cabinet, a printing console terminal that had two
sections: a 17" wide section for interactive use and an 8.5"
wide section for interacting with the operating system. To talk to
the OS, you'd press SYS REQUEST and issue commands on the smaller
section of the console.
I forgot to mention that the B80 the firm had in Salt Lake had an
LED display instead of a printing console. I think it was about
32x8; the sort of thing you'd see on a cash register. IIRC,
the Burroughs name for that sort of display was Self-Scan.
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roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net