Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks...

[Zane Healy]

In order to qualify as a GCOS-8 Operator I was required to know how to configure all of these from memory, so I could configure and cold-boot the system from scratch.  As a Systems Analyst, I never touched them.

We had two DPS-8 mainframes.  One was a single CPU Development system, that at night we could do whatever we wanted with, for training.  The other was the 4-CPU production system.

Zane



> On Mar 12, 2016, at 10:57 AM, COURYHOUSE at aol.com wrote:
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> and   for    horrible  deep level maint.  I would imagine  they  would be  useful....
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> they look  like  something too  complex to let  operations level  people  diddle  with...   
>  but  are  these  used with exactly WHICH   Honeywell  system?  If  we are  going to display them need to tell the right story in the museum.
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> In a message dated 3/12/2016 7:44:50 A.M. US Mountain Standard Time, dave.g4ugm at gmail.com writes:
> The panels would be pretty much un-used Unlike 360 panels these were hidden behind doors for most of the time. Assuming the work the same on a Multics box as on a regular L66/DPS box the only time they were really used was if you split a 2 x CPU system into 2 x 1 CPU system, or changed the memory configuration from interleaved to non-interleaved. Pretty sure you could IPL from the console.
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> From: COURYHOUSE at aol.com [mailto:COURYHOUSE at aol.com] 
> Sent: 12 March 2016 11:53
> To: jws at jwsss.com
> Cc: spacewar at gmail.com; dave.g4ugm at gmail.com; charles.unix.pro at gmail.com; jwsmail at jwsss.com; cctalk at classiccmp.org; Kevin at RawFedDogs.net; healyzh at aracnet.com; couryhouse at aol.com; couryhouse.smecc at gmail.com
> Subject: Honneywell multics? from panels. the inline phots in this message folks -smecc
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> ok sent to  all the people cc on the multics stuff..  will not  go though on main listserv probably
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> here are some of the panels  think there is more  there are at least  2 of  each  type
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> one set will make display her  at  smecc museum in az  the other set???   maybe someone want to wire into an emulator <<<grin!>>>   
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> aside  from a little  dust and bad  lighting these things  look   like they were  pretty unused   thanks  ed#  www.smecc.org <http://www.smecc.org/>
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