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Article #619741Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Bob Eager
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:25
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:25
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On Tue, 30 Jan 2018 07:05:01 +0000, AndyW wrote: > 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. Never heard of that, but I did the same when I wrote a VMS print symbiont. -- Using UNIX since v6 (1975)... Use the BIG mirror service in the UK: http://www.mirrorservice.org
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