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On Thu, 2005-05-26 at 14:36 -0400, Matt Magee wrote:
> Not old enough to have worked with a 1403, but one place I worked at had
> a pair of 6262s which apparently operate in a similar manner. The 6262s
> will induce hearing loss if you leave the doors open!
>
> People would ask why we used these huge twinax connected monsters. The
> reply was always "because it works!"
>
> Ben Coleman wrote:
>
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> > Brian J. Dowd wrote:
> > | My first home computer (1975) ran a Teletype ASR33...
> > | Now that was a kick. Stood on an attached stand and was shipped to
> > | me bolted to a wooden palette. Sounded just like a newsroom at 110
> > baud :-)
> > | Is anyone else ancient on this list or are the other geezers still
> > | running DOS or Windows?
> >
> > I'm ancient enough to remember the IBM 1403 line printers from the same
> > era. Talk about loud! I remember one where if you had several lines of
> > asterisks (typical for the header and trailer pages), it sounded as
> > though someone was hitting it with a hammer. Fast, though!
> >
> > Ben
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