My shop had an Amdahl circa 1980. The console keyboard had a very convenient LOAD button right there on one side. Too convenient. One of the operators came in and set her purse on the table by the keyboard. Sure enough, it tipped over and started an IPL. Shortly thereafter, Amdahl installed an MES guard around the button. No charge to the customer.
. . J.O.Skip Robinson Southern California Edison Company Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile jo.skip.robin...@sce.com From: Phil Smith <p...@voltage.com> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU, Date: 03/07/2014 12:34 PM Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> >Anyone have 360 "Emergency Pull" stories? This is secondhand, but I heard of operators playing Frisbee in the machine room and-yeah, emergency PUSH button, no guard. I've used that story to explain to people why there's a guard over it. I also heard of a manager being in the computer room when some sort of alarm went off-maybe just a tape mount request warning-and hitting the BRS "to make the noise stop". Well, it stopped. Along with everything else. And I fondly remember the Red Room, aka "The Pit", at UofWaterloo. This was a two-story computer room with classrooms and terminal rooms surrounding it on the second level, with glass walls so you could look down into the room and watch the operator ignoring your tape mount. OK, that wasn't the intention, but it was what happened-you'd see the operator reading; submit your request; see the op look up, read the message, and go back to his book. That became less of a good idea once I was on the Systems staff and could go down and yell at them, but of course by then I mostly wasn't working in the public terminal rooms! ...phsiii ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
