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From: Mary Ann Horton <mah@mhorton.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Compatibility question
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:15:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1a126b3d-412e-4b54-89c7-2d643b47a0cf@mhorton.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7DEABFE1-9015-461E-82EF-FF8E00516DBD@iitbombay.org>

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Thank you for this, I never knew how this worked. My experience as an 
IBM 360 (USC-ECL) operator was brief and I never got into the nuts and 
bolts.

I vaguely recall, as a teen, taking a tour of a DEC-10 shop in about 
1970 in Portland. Their printer played "Anchors Aweigh" and I never knew 
how. But now I wonder - does this mean they had an IBM 1403 connected to 
a DEC 10 somehow?

Thanks,

/Mary Ann Horton/ (she/her/ma'am)
maryannhorton.com <https://maryannhorton.com>



On 12/19/23 15:52, Bakul Shah wrote:
> On Dec 19, 2023, at 1:31 PM, Paul Winalski<paul.winalski@gmail.com>  wrote:
>> Yes, the 1403 was very loud.  The pitch of the noise varied with the
>> sequence of characters being printed.  Some IBM hacker (yes, they
>> existed) came up with a deck of cards that, when printed, played
>> "Anchors Aweigh" on the 1403.  IBM field service wasn't very keen on
>> this hack because it put a lot of wear-and-tear on the print train.
> I couldn't find "Anchors Aweigh" but I did find "La Marseillaise":
>
> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe0MGO17K10
>
> [For the curious & easily distracted among us....]
>

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-12-20  0:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 43+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-12-17  2:01 [TUHS] " KenUnix
2023-12-17 18:13 ` [TUHS] " Seth Morabito
2023-12-17 18:23   ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 22:51     ` Mary Ann Horton
2023-12-17 22:59       ` Ron Natalie
2023-12-17 23:08         ` Warner Losh
2023-12-18  0:35           ` KenUnix
2023-12-18  3:24             ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-18 17:05         ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-18 22:29           ` Jon Forrest
2023-12-19  1:46           ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-19  7:56             ` Harald Arnesen
2023-12-19 17:40             ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 18:07               ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-19 20:23                 ` Clem Cole
2023-12-19 21:31                   ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-19 23:52                     ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20  0:05                       ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20  1:03                         ` Bakul Shah
2023-12-20  1:32                           ` Greg 'groggy' Lehey
2023-12-20  6:05                             ` Wesley Parish
2023-12-20  0:15                       ` Mary Ann Horton [this message]
2023-12-20 16:07                         ` Adam Thornton
2023-12-20 16:22                           ` Clem Cole
2023-12-20 18:11                           ` Alan D. Salewski
2023-12-20 16:34                         ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-20 18:15                           ` Jon Forrest
2023-12-20  1:11                       ` Steffen Nurpmeso
2023-12-20  1:23                         ` Tom Lyon
2023-12-21  3:53                     ` Rod Bartlett via TUHS
2023-12-19 21:34                   ` Rob Pike
2023-12-17  5:55 David Arnold
2023-12-17  8:08 ` segaloco via TUHS
2023-12-17 18:04   ` James Frew
2023-12-17 18:18     ` Lars Brinkhoff
2023-12-17 19:14       ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 18:48     ` Paul Winalski
2023-12-17 18:59       ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 20:24       ` Dave Horsfall
2023-12-17 19:26     ` Dan Cross
2023-12-17 20:08       ` Warner Losh
2023-12-17 14:07 ` Brad Spencer
2023-12-17 14:47   ` Arrigo Triulzi via TUHS

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