I recall that the original Telex 2314 clones were terrible performers compared with the IBM devices, and the Telex folks were really frustrated, because our measurements proved their device's exactly matched the published IBM specs.
Unfortunately for Telex, the actual performance of those IBM drives was significantly much better/faster than their published specifications. Barry Merrill Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229 [email protected] http://www.mxg.com - FAQ has Most Answers [email protected] - invoices/PO/Payment [email protected] - technical tel: 214 351 1966 - expect slow reply, use email fax: 214 350 3694 - prefer email, still works -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Finnell Sent: Monday, March 31, 2014 3:15 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Query for Destination z article -- artifacts We had fun with Memorex Disks. Upgraded walkie talkies for hardware techs and if they keyed to talk by the Memorex controller it would IML itself. Also after a couple of furious weekends to meet ESP commitments, went to IPL XA and it wouldn't. After looking at sense codes PSR said it's the disk. FDR'd it over to Blue platter and wa-la! Older memories of MFCM's and check sorters. Used to be one check sorter was a 'territory' for a CE. Long story short, local bank up the road had one fail during year end close.So CE does a partial rebuild and fires it up. Something wasn't tightened down and it was squirting high pressure oil in his face. So he grabs it and hits the EPO. He recovered, but they say they've repainted that room 5 times and at low light can still see a silhouette over by the check sorter(s). In a message dated 3/31/2014 1:42:22 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I believe that the OEM for those (as well as the Telex-branded ones) was ISS/Sperry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
