> On May 25, 2018, at 8:21 PM, Paul Gilmartin
> <000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
>
> On Fri, 25 May 2018 19:47:47 -0500, Edward Gould wrote:
>>
>> What we did use from potter was their printer. All the programmers seem to
>> love it as the page size was 8 1/2 by 11.
>> I do not remember specifically anything wrong with it although I think it
>> got used heavily. It may have had more down time, I don’t remember.
>>
> Laser? Impact? Matrix? Other (specify)? Landscape? Portrait? Character
> pitch?
> What year?
It was an impact printer and it was landscape character size smaller than a
1403 as to year the early 80’s. My memory is vague here but the speed was
similar to a 1403. We never used it to print the stand alone dumps as you got
crossed eyes after looking at it for a while (and our IBMers didn’t like it
either and those were the ones that looked at dump’s 8 hours a day). In those
days we had 40 or more standalone dumps waiting to be looked at and those were
7 feet high on the floor and 5 -7 feet high on the tables. I might be
conservative in those numbers. Most days we saw the PSR going into his desk
and we would not see him until he needed parts of the dump that were not
printed. He would ask us to do so, not an issue as we all felt sorry for the
guy because of his drudge. I know that when the backlog got to great he would
ask his boss for another person. Jim (the PSR) was so good at his job the JES3
team snapped him away from us. We got stuck with a PSR that was at best bad, We
asked for a replacement and according to IBM there wasn't any. The IBM SE
helped out until a decent replacement was found.That is about when the quality
of IBM people really slid (1985- forwards). I was so used to getting an idea on
how good an IBM PSR/SE I could get it right in about 10 minutes after meeting
them. I am usually right and have never been wrong.
Ed
>
>> All I know is that one day it was there and the next day the 1403 was back.
>
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