[kwlug-disc] what the rest of us were doing..

[CrankyOldBugger]

For a brief time, before I discovered computers, I was working in the
Engineering building at UWO.  They had some system there for water or
electrical management that had a strange keyboard:  it was a basic computer
keyboard but it had an "ack" key that the operator more or less leaned on
all day.  Does anyone know what sort of system that might have been?


On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 4:56 PM Francisco Dominguez <fxdoming at gmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I had the privilege to work with some people at bell-northern- research
> (BNR/Northern Electric/ Nortel) back in the late 80’s / early 90’s
>
> Many were retiring at 60 / 65… so the stories they had of how they built
> phone switches, computing networks, and developed with protel (precursor to
> C / pascal) were amazing to hear…
>
> 370’s I think were still in use when I started there… used x-edit and
> cocos-mail on the vm/Cms
> We were ‘cutting edge’!
>
>
>
>
> Francisco
> fxdoming at gmail.com
>
> On Aug 5, 2022, at 3:53 PM, Jon Thiele <jthiele at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> 
> First it was Honeywell Level 6 ===> System/370 ===> System/36 ===>  AS/400
> ===> z/OS or whatever it's called now...
>
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> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:32 PM CrankyOldBugger <crankyoldbugger at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Those early AS/400's were the best computers ever built..  rock solid;
>> they run forever.  At least, they run until a certain unnamed operator
>> accidentally tripped over the power cord one day...  They drop pretty fast
>> then!
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 3:29 PM Jason Eckert <jason.eckert at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> That was such a reliable platform. The last day of my co-op at Microsoft
>>> (early 90s) there was a talk in the amphitheatre, and I remember Bill Gates
>>> telling everyone that IBM was in financial trouble and they were
>>> considering buying just the AS/400 division (at the time, Microsoft had a
>>> LOT of AS/400 systems running pretty much all the company operations).
>>>
>>> On Fri, Aug 5, 2022 at 1:56 PM CrankyOldBugger <
>>> crankyoldbugger at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I enjoyed hearing some of the older guys in this group go on about
>>>> systems and programs they used back in the day.. For the rest of us old
>>>> farts, we ran IBM.  Here's a fun video of the AS/400 plant in Rochester (I
>>>> used to work on System/38 and AS/400 beasties)
>>>>
>>>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m53H0pO2FD4
>>>>
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