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From: Rich Morin <rdm@cfcl.com>
To: TUHS main list <tuhs@minnie.tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] Remember the ed thread?
Date: Mon, 29 Mar 2021 20:39:04 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5D422E7C-F9E8-407F-8F86-E38893AAE78E@cfcl.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiWkX_uPwh=a7Psr=dbwW5=O_5c6rZa+L5BVD6ajwXoXqQ@mail.gmail.com>

I spent a few years working with a CDC 3800, which also had a pneumatic card reader, along with several other noisy peripherals.  Although I have no way to prove this, I suspect that my current hearing issues stem from the noise in that machine room.

-r

> On Mar 29, 2021, at 16:21, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> GE outdid the printer with a fantastically fast pneumatic card reader. The make and break of the suction on each card repeated at aural frequency and so loud that I hied off to the instrument stockroom to borrow a noise meter. It was 90db at the operator's position.


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-30  3:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-29 23:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-30  3:39 ` Rich Morin [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2021-03-31  0:54 Norman Wilson
2021-03-31  1:29 ` John Cowan
     [not found] <CAKH6PiXmR6Jv0bkyOtHuk1ZLV64aeW7bnQkUnzV9-G_JaUVDAA@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30 23:38 ` John Cowan
2021-03-31  2:34   ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-29 15:58 Norman Wilson
2021-03-30  0:11 ` John Cowan
2021-03-29 14:34 Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 15:09 ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:26   ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:36     ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:43       ` Brantley Coile
2021-03-29 15:52         ` Mark van Atten
2021-03-29 15:45     ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 15:51       ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 17:22       ` arnold
     [not found]         ` <CALMnNGgWrFRjXk5N4PgTj0_Yw3W5nCR2=CYSASM6dnqTooy8Dw@mail.gmail.com>
2021-03-30  8:53           ` arnold
2021-03-29 15:37   ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 15:42     ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:49     ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 16:01     ` Andy Kosela
2021-03-29 18:12     ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-03-29 16:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-29 19:50 ` Rob Pike
2021-03-29 20:50   ` Michael Usher via TUHS
2021-03-29 20:55     ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:10       ` Erik E. Fair
2021-03-29 21:14         ` Larry McVoy
2021-03-29 21:53         ` Clem Cole
2021-03-29 22:29           ` John P. Linderman
2021-03-30  4:30             ` Rob Pike
2021-03-30  7:37             ` Harald Arnesen
2021-03-30 15:00         ` Kenneth Goodwin

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