To: narby
The 3033
7 posted on
04/05/2004 5:51:29 PM PDT by
NCjim
To: NCjim
3033 .... Yeah. That was it.
The last mainframe that I ever changed a magnetic tape on. The UPS was in it's own building out back with rows of batteries and a diesel generator.
10 posted on
04/05/2004 5:53:22 PM PDT by
narby
(Clarke's job was to prevent terrorist attacks, but he's better at CYA)
To: NCjim
The 3033 I once talked several friends into buying a 3031, complete with a massive A/C unit. We had some notion of setting it up in one guy's basement and doing timesharing, but his wife became soggy and hard to light...
It sat in a warehouse for a year, and we finally unloaded it for scrap...
To: NCjim
I'll see ypur 3033 and raise you a Sperry 1100/40 and a DEC PDP floor...
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55 posted on
04/05/2004 6:31:51 PM PDT by
AgentEcho
(If there are no dogs in Heaven, then when I die I want to go where they went. - Will Rogers)
To: NCjim
I installed one of the very early 3033's (I think it was serial number 13, could not close the doors on the outboard channels, so many of those yellow wires...customer bought it to run VM and multiple copies of MVT... Poughkeepsie wanted us to bludgeon them into running MVS.... What Turmoil...
141 posted on
04/05/2004 10:28:50 PM PDT by
Ernest_at_the_Beach
(The terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States - and war is what they got!!!!)
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