I arrived at Durham in the autumn 30 years ago. Ouch, I feel old!
David
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I agree. I've been wanting to try out that product, on what Jay
supports, for the longest time. David, can you remember what year this
was? Oh, and I've met a few of those typewriter based terminals.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf
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> Jay Maynard
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> On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:21:46PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote:
> > Now you are talking. My earliest experience of IBM was on a
360/67 at
> > Durham University (it was shared with Newcastle) and they ran MTS
(Michigan
> > Terminal System). Most of the terminals were golfball
typewriters,
> > although there were a few 2260s around. The machine had 2MB RAM
and an
> > 11MB fixed head drum, and you could really feel when the total
virtual
> > memory requirement went over 13M as it moved its paging out to
3330, then
> > to 2314, then in deparation to tape, and on one wonderful occasion
to
> > punched card (it used 64 columns for data and 16 as a pattern
which it
> > displayed on the console when it asked for the right cards back).
>
> PUNCHED CARDS??!!
>
> Merciful $DEITY.
>
> BTW, anyone have any inside contacts at the University of Michigan
that
> could possibly get MTS released into the world of open source?
There's been
> some interest in running it under Hercules, but nobody can find out
who owns
> the rights or who to contact to get it released.
