16 Jul
2008
16 Jul
'08
5:44 p.m.
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 04:56:33PM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
I'm sorry it came across that way. ;-)
Diane Bruce wrote:
>>>>Nah, a Rube Goldberg inspired solution would have included paper cups,
...
Both ways. Barefoot. In the snow. Uphill both ways. etc. etc.
Except I wasn't kidding. I had an IBM mainframe with only SNA capabilities, and a Honeywell-Bull machine with no
network interfaces at
all. I used the lineprinter on the Bull to print, drum-scanned it into
an IBM PS/2, then used a Microchannel 3270 emulation card as the main
console of the IBM mainframe to transfer the file to the mainframe.
Took a while, but worked just fine.
That's way cool. 'drum-scanned' ? The first OCR stuff I worked on developing
was a page scanner, not very practical for books. ;-) It was fun doing it
on a pair of PDP-11/23's though.
Made a good pile of money on that one.
Peace... Sridhar
- Diane
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