From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc@ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Wed, 23 Mar 2016 21:05:03 -0400 Subject: [TUHS] Early non-Unix filesystems? In-Reply-To: References: <20160318004832.GA18245@minnie.tuhs.org> <20160318084234.GB64087@server.rulingia.com> <24e7ae828a0086db2f79ea66165b80bf.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> <1458323139.767071.553262498.2A8E1982@webmail.messagingengine.com> <82f0876de76c486a95d1091c88279546.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> <20160321214355.GA86793@eureka.lemis.com> <7f19bd2388c2ea3a5b4de8ec060f275f.squirrel@webmail.yaccman.com> Message-ID: On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Dave Horsfall wrote: > Have you any idea how fast the IBM 1403 printer can slew blank pages? > Cough cough... > ​yep​ > It chewed through a box in an instant, and I got to > re-pack it afterwards. You also learned to not place your coffee cup on > it (I was doing the midnight shift at the time), because when it ran out > of paper then the door would open automatically... > ​What's coffee - try beer glass/plastic cup. Once nice thing about raised floors is they kept your beer cold. On weekend if we were having a party, I would bring a gallon milk jug fresh from the tap's at my fraternity and put it under the floor. I could usually bribe another operator to stay over for an unpaid hour or so when the backups first ran. Then we would finish our beers and if I was lucky, the "console bell" was a fire alarm. So with a patch to the TSS kernel you could get it ring the console bell when the system needed human attention. I could then go into the printer paper room where there was an Tek 4010 graphics tube. Thus I could either go off to hack for a while knowing that I would be called if the system needed me.​ Clem -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: