From: Rod Bartlett via TUHS <tuhs@tuhs.org>
To: Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu>
Cc: TUHS main list <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: [TUHS] Re: Loud machines (was Compatibility Question)
Date: Wed, 20 Dec 2023 22:56:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5DAD2EB4-DC7C-49B4-A703-FF8AF25A54ED@mac.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAKH6PiXPTm2AjxZTwreUjDAHV0V_RZHozGo6fSfQJRLeaRRjSA@mail.gmail.com>
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Those old GE card readers were wicked fast. The occasional card jams took a while to recover from since they would jam so many cards into a tiny space meant to hold a single card.
To tell the truth, I never noticed the sound level much because the line printers were so much louder.
- Rod
> On Dec 19, 2023, at 11:11 PM, Douglas McIlroy <douglas.mcilroy@dartmouth.edu> wrote:
>
> > Paul -- you left out the other "feature" -- the noise, which was still deafening even with a model N1 and its cover.
>
> It was indeed loud, but GE out-roared them with a blindingly fast card reader. The machine had a supposedly gentle touch; it grabbed cards with vacuum rather than tongs. But the make-and-break pneumatic explosions sounded like a machine gun. A noise meter I borrowed from the Labs' tool crib read 90db 6 feet away.
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> Doug
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2023-12-20 4:11 [TUHS] " Douglas McIlroy
2023-12-20 7:12 ` [TUHS] " arnold
2023-12-21 3:56 ` Rod Bartlett via TUHS [this message]
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