On Dec 1, 2015, at 3:19 PM, J O Skip Robinson wrote:
Timeframe was 1980 plus or minus. I was a true novice sysprog and
kept an arm's length from OS innards. It was during that two-year
gig that MVS/SP was announced, so not likely available just yet. I
only remember being impressed with the clever workaround that kept
the Amdahl useful.
P.S. The same machine had a load button on the system keyboard. One
day an operator's purse fell over and caused a midmorning IPL.
Amdahl installed a little box around the button. They were clever
folks. ;-)
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.SKIP:
We had a MP168 and one of the ops hung her purse on the EPO switch.
Needless to say a box was quickly installed after her purse caused a
EPO,.
Ed
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