[AccessD] OT: ...end of line for Borland...

Doug Steele dbdoug at gmail.com
Fri May 8 18:25:15 CDT 2009


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.
>
>
>



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