jwcolby
jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com
Fri May 8 20:34:54 CDT 2009
And let's not forget the naked lady picture created out of lines of different letters and characters. John W. Colby www.ColbyConsulting.com Doug Steele wrote: > And occasionally, an IBM engineer would turn up with a stack of 80 column > cards that, when run, would make the 360 play a tune on the radio that sat > on the cpu. > > On Fri, May 8, 2009 at 4:04 PM, Rocky Smolin <rockysmolin at bchacc.com> wrote: > >> Between my sophomore and junior years they university got a 360/40. I hung >> with the engineers while they installed it and when September rolled around >> I was the only one on campus who knew how to run the machine. So I got to >> be systems manager - and actually got PAID for playing with that beauty. >> Had a couple hundred little bulbs on the front. So I used to turn off the >> lights at night, tune the radio to an AM frequency that picked up the >> machine's 'song', and watch the light show. >> >> >>