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Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there?

From	Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Newsgroups	alt.sys.pdp11, alt.folklore.computers
Subject	Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there?
Date	2024-11-15 15:21 -1000
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"Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> writes:
> I don't think our college was open at nights. There was somewhere
> where they assigned our time, some paper or something. I don't
> remember.
>
> Possibly because some staff had to be there watching us.

IBM, not DEC ... took 2hr intro to fortran/computers and at the end of
the semester the univ hired me to re-implement 1401 MPIO in 360
assembler for 360/30. Univ was getting a 360/67 for tss/360, replacing
709/1401 and got 360/30 replacing 1401 temporarily (until 360/67 was
available).

Univ shutdown datacenter on weekends and I would have the machine room
dedicated all weekend, although 48hrs w/o sleep made monday classes
hard. They gave me a bunch of hardware & software manuals and I got to
design and implement my own monitor, device drivers, interrupt handlers,
error recovery, storage management, etc. and within a few weeks had a
2000 card assembler program.

I quickly learned when I 1st came in sat. morning to clean tape drives
and 1403 printer and disassemble and clean 2540 card reader/punch.
Sometimes when I arrived, the place would be dark, production work had
finished early, and they shut the place down.  Sometimes the 360/30
wouldn't power up and reading manuals and trial and error, learned to
put all controllers in CE mode, power on 360/30 and controllers
individually and then take controllers out of CE mode.

the 360/67 came in within a year of taking intro class and univ. hires
me fulltime responsible of os/360 (tss/360 never came to fruition so ran
as 360/65 with os/360, I continue to get the machine room dedicated for
weekends). Student fortran ran under a second on 709 but initially over
a minute with os/360. I install HASP cutting the time in half. I then
start redoing stage2 sysgen to carefully place datasets and PDS members
to optimize arm seek and multi-track search, cutting another 2/3rds to
12.9secs. Student fortran never got better than 709 until i install
Univ. of Waterlook WATFOR.

Then before I graduate, I'm hired fulltime into small group in Boeing
CFO office to help with formation of Boeing Computer Services, place all
dataprocessing in an independent business unit. I thot Renton datacenter
largest in the world, couple hundred million in 360 stuff, 360/65s
arriving faster than they could be installed, boxes constantly staged in
the hallways around the machine room (somebody joked that Boeing was
buying 360/65s like other companies bought keypunches).

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-14 22:11 +0000
  Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-15 01:40 +0100
    Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-15 01:56 +0000
      Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-15 14:28 +0100
        Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-15 21:58 +0000
          Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-16 01:18 +0100
            Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-11-15 15:21 -1000
              Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2024-11-15 17:45 -1000
            Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-16 01:52 +0000
              Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-16 03:03 +0100
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-16 03:33 +0000
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-11-16 15:14 +0000
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-11-16 22:21 +0000
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "John H. Reinhardt" <johnhreinhardt@thereinhardts.org> - 2024-11-16 18:01 -0600
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2024-11-17 18:12 +0000
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-11-17 18:57 +0000
                Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? "Carlos E.R." <robin_listas@es.invalid> - 2024-11-16 21:05 +0100
  Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> - 2024-11-15 15:49 +0300
    Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> - 2024-11-15 16:51 +0300
      Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-15 22:01 +0000
        Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2024-11-15 15:41 -0800
          Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Bob Eager <news0009@eager.cx> - 2024-11-16 22:32 +0000
        Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> - 2024-11-16 05:03 +0300
          Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-16 03:35 +0000
            Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> - 2024-11-16 10:20 +0300
    Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-15 22:10 +0000
      Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Robin Haberkorn <robin.haberkorn@googlemail.com> - 2024-11-16 05:09 +0300
        Re: Any interesting PDP/TECO photos out there? Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> - 2024-11-16 03:40 +0000

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