[GreenKeys] More Teletypes with Mainframes

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A pity Jack Aldrige is not still alive...  he  goes  back to  the pre  
Burroughs  days  with ELECTRODATA  or  right  around the changeover.. we have  
what  notes, journals and hardware  the  family  did not  pitch...   quite a 
bit  was  saved  as  I handed  them  money with each truckload   they 
brought us. I just  wish  they had  found  us   earlier in the clean out process   
who  knows    what  we  missed out on??
 
 
In a message dated 7/16/2013 7:55:39 P.M. US Mountain Standard Time,  
pete at petelancashire.com writes:

 
 
 
 
 
My stint at "Big B" aka Burroughs was short but being young my "inocence"  
allowed me to snoop around a lot and got to know quite a few of the 
oldtimes.  I was 19 they were old like 40 :-)


>From what I was told the 5500  did start its life with a 35 KSR but the 33 
came out and the 5500 shipped with  a 33. I do know the 3500 and 4700 had 
33's for their SPO or as the rest of the  word knew them the console.


As most of us know on the list, even  though the 33 was considered a light 
duty machine, properly maintained (oiled  and greased) they had no problem 
going past their MTBF's. 

For a bit of  fuzzy memory a busy mainframe running 24/5 to 24/7 would go 
through a rolll of  paper in a couple days, but there were a lot of 

lines with no more  then 10 characters printed and a lot of blanks lines or 
paper pulled and  wrapped around a deck of cards.


Great memories of having both a  fully configured 4700 and a 2x2 way 6700 
(CRT console) to myself on graveyard,  then on one job running
diagnostics by myself on a 7700 with a ***** for  the NSA :-), talk about 
geek heaven :-)


-pete make that memories  from long ago  
 





On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Cory Heisterkamp 
<_coryheisterkamp at gmail.com_ (mailto:coryheisterkamp at gmail.com) > wrote:

A few more entries in the 'What computers used an M28 as console  
equipment' category...
 
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, 
but the UNIVAC III uses the guts of an M28 sunken into its sleek,  
formica-topped operator console.    -Cory

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