I get a bunch of hits on discussions, which wiki wouldn't consider reliable. 
Could you provide URLs for the SHARE and academic references? Thanks.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Charles Mills <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 6:21 PM
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Subject: Re: Reliable source for slang term "noodle picker"?

I Googled 2321 noodle picker and got a bunch of hits.

I just started to paste them here but they are Google links as long as your
arm. Just Google <2321 noodle picker>. Also <IBM noodle picker>.

Here it is in a "printed newspaper":
https://secure-web.cisco.com/1IV9S5J8m0txW4qG18jH6pVkspIk-15BI5QOyjvmSLLzKpGOi_xD8Eh70aeqiWl5vSXX2E_LwtxndId2o6ZDCZFM-e3M72yhMsWXaLcy2B6xnknxOfOcDW6PrTITkVI7IxyGRudO_GcnjYygn2zPkiDW3-OVE0R9JKBRj6McavhKseNGoMjsHSH2w7qHFJPig5ISroKQjn_fJNyDx3420G8dBIyq9U4gJ4gdbdgDxT8-iPC3r4q4ZKbCC9t2uT7xzbOopQZO78TBZW0OSkvltXLG5dtZS0oRDKci3E99f14dJFQQ44jpTR83erVDaEf5nVPw0HptGF8MajXWM8g04pKdvevNAK3Qw69sUezopTMSs2AKHaPHLOEkfpg0MWHoGQI9FPhtSsrtaD-Aq1fL7bTojY3tz18XpkyePv8NJYFtIXPJr4oaFQTnYnGH5w1-I/https%3A%2F%2Fforums.theregister.com%2Fpost%2F637087

I found a SHARE presentation and some academic Web site.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 2:53 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reliable source for slang term "noodle picker"?

Wiki has some strange rules, and they prefer secondary sources. To me that
sound like a way for errors to creep in, but those are the rules. Anything
printed in a trade journal should work. Could there be something in annals
of computing?

In general, I've found wiki to be a hostile working environment, due to the
lack of an effective dispute resolution mechanism,  and I am concentrating
on software-related articles, where I haven't run into as many issues with
other editors.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of
Grant Taylor <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 29, 2021 4:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Reliable source for slang term "noodle picker"?

On 10/29/21 2:27 PM, Doug wrote:
> You mean besides the act that we lived through that time, I fixed them,
> and everyone I knew that had any knowledge of them at all called the
> 2321 a "noodle picker?'

Is there any chance that an interview / statement from one or more
people with first hand experience during the 2321's heyday would count?

I don't think there is any reliable source for calling a modem
connection sequence "sounds like a duck choking on a kazoo" either.  Yet
I know many people that have used that expression.  Maybe describe it as
a colloquialism.

There are many things in history that people are not proud of.  But the
dislike thereof doesn't mean that they didn't happen.



--
Grant. . . .
unix || die

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