GTE Data Services in Marina del Rey, CA was still getting paper tape
out put from telephone local offices in 1982. Basically the system worked
fine, and while they were scheduled for replacement, they figured "If it
ain't broke, don't fix it." Tapes came from the local offices and were
read into the IBM and/or Amdahl machines where were running MVS 3.2 if I
remember correctly. If Howard Thompson or any of those folks are lurking
out there, please correct me.
But even more ancient were the plug boards which were used for other
purposes. There was one lady, Sono Obuchi, who was the only one who knew
how to program them. I stayed as far away from them as I could.
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