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From: Steve Simon <steve@quintile.net>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] Re: UNIX "Machine Layer"
Date: Mon, 1 May 2023 19:11:31 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <B72AC0F4-F067-4D8B-9FF5-C5BFB0726D5A@quintile.net> (raw)


“soldering iron…”

i do remember the fun of changing the baud rate of an async line on the Honeywell level 66 mainframe at college. This required shutting the whole machine down, removing one of the cards, and the (very careful) use of a wire wrap tool.

-Steve


             reply	other threads:[~2023-05-01 18:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-05-01 18:11 Steve Simon [this message]
2023-05-02  1:15 ` Roderick Bartlett via TUHS

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