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. > > >