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

[Pete Lancashire]

35, pin feed

-pete

On Wed, Oct 28, 2015 at 4:30 PM, <teletypeparts at comcast.net> wrote:

> Always something new to learn on this List.
>
> Wayne
>
> ------------------------------
> *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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