Old mini computer

[Roger Ivie]

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Roger Ivie wrote:
> I was working for an accounting firm in Roosevelt, UT. The B800
> had a CPU cabinet, a printing console terminal that had two
> sections: a 17" wide section for interactive use and an 8.5"
> wide section for interacting with the operating system. To talk to
> the OS, you'd press SYS REQUEST and issue commands on the smaller
> section of the console.

I forgot to mention that the B80 the firm had in Salt Lake had an
LED display instead of a printing console. I think it was about
32x8; the sort of thing you'd see on a cash register. IIRC,
the Burroughs name for that sort of display was Self-Scan.
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roger ivie
rivie at ridgenet.net