[GreenKeys] [OT] MTS was Re: AB Drums

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From: "Christian Gauger-Cosgrove" <captainkirk359 at gmail.com> 
To: "Douglas W Jones" <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> 
Cc: "GREENKEYS BULLETIN BOARD" <greenkeys at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 2015 7:22:33 PM 
Subject: [GreenKeys] [OT] MTS was Re:  AB Drums 

On 28 October 2015 at 16:11, Jones, Douglas W <douglas-w-jones at uiowa.edu> wrote: 
> On the MTS system (Michigan Terminal System, the best OS ever written for the IBM 360/67), the answer-back drum was routinely used during login.  Each terminal had a unique ID programmed into its drum, and the computer triggered the answer-back to get the user's location before the user logs in. 
> 
> -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cO6asQjQmPM 
> 
In regards to MTS, you can run a D6.0A MTS system on Hercules on your 
PC if you felt so inclined: 
<http://archive.michigan-terminal-system.org/mts-d60A> 


> It's not an ASR-33 (it has a type-box like a Model 35, with a dial-up UCC that looks like it would fit on a Model 33, and in a narrow case like a model 33).  It uses the answer-back drum at 2:08 minutes into the video. 
> 
That definitely looks like a standard Model 35 KSR, in the video, no? 

Regards, 
Christian 
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