Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > One a leased train wouldn't they be under contractual > obligation to replace the worn slugs at their expense.
Yes. Several popular characters on ours were repeatedly being replaced. IBM suggested some slug graphic combos that would result in them having to replace fewer slugs as a consequence of combining the popular characters on a smaller number of slugs. But they wanted us to pay an RPQ charge up front for the special slug graphic config. But the director balked so IBM kept replacing the slugs at their expense. > Did the HASP newsletter suggest strong a modified UCS > image under the name of the stock image? YES ... and NO. It was presented as a "mod" (not as a new addition, or a completely new train [UCS image]). So that part was the YES. But clearly you could use the same cards at a different sequence number to add an additional UCS image ... so that part was the NO. The purpose of the illustration was not lost on those who did that (HASP mods) for a living. IBM didn't need to rub the point in. To avoid confusion, most shops that had modified 1403 or 3211 print trains modified ALL of their trains and not just some of them. So, it was convenient to have all printers set to load the so-called "PN" train UCS image, even though the bytes in their "PN" image were not the same as an original, unmodified PN UCS image. What most folks called a "PN" or "TN" UCS image was, in fact, their own, customized (and possibly unique) UCS image. Sometimes they were not unique. When our competitor across the street (literally) heard what we did at a user's group meeting, I just gave them the slug charts and cards (literally) to define its corresponding UCS image. They just ordered the same RPQ slugs from IBM, in exactly the same sequence on their trains, and, of course, used my UCS image (mods). When I looked at a shop's HASP mods, I usually saw that they had modified the existing UCS images. I hardly ever found one that added a new UCS image by some new (but similar) name. UCS image names were 2 characters long (typically), so it was hard to come up with something else that the operators would get familiar and be happy with. > No, but I'd like some evidence that they said it. Well, since one of "they" is ME, I offer myself into evidence, your honor. I don't have recordings of old conversations from the late 1960s, however, to prove anything. I guess you're just going to have to take my word for it. -- WB ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
