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Article #619742Re: 1956 -- circuit reliability book
From: Peter Flass
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:09
Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 21:09
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Bob Eager <news...@eager.cx> wrote: > 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. > > Pretty standard. JES2 printed headers and trailers like that, and I think the older OS/360 "output writer" must have, since the block letter routine, IEFSD095, was a standard part of the OS. TSS/360 did the same, I used a TSS header for the Wikipedia article on, I think, "Header page". JES would print two header and two trailer pages, and overwrite the bottom fold of the page with a few lines of "stuff", so the separations would show up when you looked at a stack of paper edge-on. -- Pete
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