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Article #619739Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: AndyW
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:05
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:05
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On 29/01/2018 21:01, hanc...@bbs.cpcn.com wrote: > On Monday, January 29, 2018 at 11:54:30 AM UTC-5, Charlie Gibbs wrote: > >> At my first job, the rhythm of the printer would tell me from across >> the room not only that an RPG compile was running, but whether it >> had any errors. > > +1. Like with the 1403 printing a dump--I could tell by the > sound my job had abended. > My IT department wrote a routine to print a block of text onto the end of each print so that they could hear when each batch print had ended and so they could separate the prints as they came out instead of searching through a whole stack of fan fold to separate the different prints. It sounded like descending tones. Simple everyday genius. Andy
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