[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

[Jim Haynes]

On Tue, 16 Jul 2013, Cory Heisterkamp wrote:

> Just reading through a few issues of Datamation 1961, the Burroughs B-5000
> features a table top model prominently for operator I/O (not a skin-tight,
> either), and if I hadn't read it in the manual, I wouldn't have known it,

That may have been dummied-up for the photo.  They used a 28 RO tabletop
as the console printer on the B-220 - it sat on a stand of their own make
that was full of relays.  The B-5500 we had at UCSC had a 33 KSR for the
console device, and there was some mention in the maintenance docs about
it replacing an earlier electric typewriter, believe it was Smith-Corona.
A Burroughs photograph of the period shows the electric typewriter.
http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/memory-storage/8/249/946
I'm not sure when one was actually delivered.  Believe all the B-5000s
were converted to 5500s, which involved a little additional processor
logic and removal of the magnetic drums, with disks being available.

> but the UNIVAC III uses the guts of an M28 sunken into its sleek,
> formica-topped operator console.   -Cory
> 
Was it a 28 or a 35?  I remember seeing one once, but am not at all
clear on which machine it was using.

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