[Vermonter]

Anyone else remember playng tunes on the 1403 printers?

CE's didn't think much of us doing that!

[NCjim]

Yes - and card decks to draw Edith and a few others... :-)

[NCjim]

And many a disk pack was lost after 'temporarily' placing it on top of the N1 just before it ran out of paper...

[EggsAckley]

I remember working at Gallo Winery (I was a teenager) and was working in the "computer room," which was the entire basement of the office building. This was in 1960-1961. Don't know what the computer was, but it was enormous, and I DO remember the head of the department making music come out from somewhere on the machine. What a monster!!

[Nick Danger]

Anyone else remember playng tunes on the 1403 printers?

Raindrops keep falling on my head

[HAL9000]

Anyone else remember playng tunes on the 1403 printers?

I remember how it would spew paper like a fountain if the carriage tape loop came unglued. But otherwise, it was an excellent machine, built like a tank.

The other day, I found an old "green card" from my days as an IBM 360/370 assembly language programmer. It was a fine computer, except that it didn't have a hardware stack.

[BabsC]

Anyone else remember playng tunes on the 1403 printers?

Or using the RTC punch cards in a job deck to load/unload mag tapes and open and close the impact printer.

Personally got caught playing orchestra with the hardware, fortunately it was entertaining to the HR guy so I just got applauded.(knew better than to get caught again)