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.
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2021-03-29 23:21 M Douglas McIlroy
2021-03-30 3:39 ` Rich Morin [this message]
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2021-03-30 23:38 ` John Cowan
2021-03-31 2:34 ` Bakul Shah
2021-03-29 15:58 Norman Wilson
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2021-03-29 15:09 ` Anders Damsgaard
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2021-03-30 8:53 ` arnold
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2021-03-29 15:42 ` Anders Damsgaard
2021-03-29 15:49 ` Larry McVoy
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2021-03-29 18:12 ` Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS
2021-03-29 16:20 ` Steve Nickolas
2021-03-29 19:50 ` Rob Pike
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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
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