🚀 go-pugleaf

One day last year I dropped by the office of a friend who works at the
computer center here at psu.  He and the other IBM gurus had a little
problem.  For some reason which I've forgotten RSCS wasn't working that
day, and so print jobs were backing up on one 3090 waiting to get sent
to the other.  They were trying to get all the spool files transfered
over and printed.  I don't recall the exact tactic they settled on, but
it involved networked virtual devices, using some other protocol: send
the data to the virtual card reader of the VM system that had the
printers.  So the head programmer whips out a few lines of JCL and
starts it all rolling.  A minute later he gets an error message back:
"Card reader jammed.  Please reset."  Huh?  They all stare at the
screen for a while.  I say, "How do you do that?"  "Hit the reset
switch on the reader."   They had to take the system down to fix it.


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Scott Schwartz		<schw...@shire.cs.psu.edu>
"More mips; cheaper mips; never too many." -- John Mashey