23 Jul
2004
23 Jul
'04
3:07 p.m.
OK, so Burroughs machines were not the easiest things
on the eyes
um... what about that B800 ?
now, THATS ugly. Not quite as bad as a B90, but pretty durn ugly.
http://www.osfn.org/ricm/c-b800.html
24 Jul
24 Jul
12:55 a.m.
New subject: B800 Re: Burroughs B1955
The thing that I remember about the B800 (or B80?) was that it used an
8" floppy drive. I'd never seen one before. Before that we used tapes to
load all the SW and to IPL the Burroughs machines. I remember the
instructions for the B800 said that the floppy disk should be changed every
40 hours! That's less than a standard work week! And I remember the disk
weren't cheap in those days but thinking oh well, banks own them and they
can certainly afford the costs. A good friend of mine namded Marvin Mills
from Bedford Va was the field engineer on these for the
SW Virginia area.
Joe
At 08:07 PM 7/23/04 -0700, you wrote:
OK, so Burroughs machines were not the easiest
things on the eyes
um... what about that B800 ?
now, THATS ugly. Not quite as bad as a B90, but pretty durn ugly.
http://www.osfn.org/ricm/c-b800.html
1:14 a.m.
New subject: B800 Re: Burroughs B1955
Joe R. wrote:
The thing that I remember about the B800 (or B80?)
was that it used an
8" floppy drive. I'd never seen one before. Before that we used tapes to
load all the SW and to IPL the Burroughs machines.
Indeed, I worked on the development of the B80 and the 8 in floppy was
the system disk for some configurations. It held 1 M byte
I remember the
instructions for the B800 said that the floppy disk should be changed every
40 hours! That's less than a standard work week! And I remember the disk
weren't cheap in those days but thinking oh well, banks own them and they
can certainly afford the costs.
I suspect the 40 hour was working hours, so unless the disk was
permanently operational it should last considerably longer. I don't
recall any similar notices for the B80 floppy disks.
-- HansP
25 Jul
25 Jul
5:23 p.m.
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 20:07, Al Kossow wrote:
> OK, so Burroughs machines were not the easiest
things on the eyes
THat's *ugly*?! Check out the Varian 620/i series. Vertical paddle
switches are shaped like really ugly white teeth sticking out of an ugly
square fake-woodgrain skull. Ugh.
7:56 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
On Fri, 2004-07-23 at 20:07, Al Kossow wrote:
>>OK, so Burroughs machines were not the easiest
things on the eyes
THat's *ugly*?! Check out the Varian 620/i series.
Vertical paddle
switches are shaped like really ugly white teeth sticking out of an ugly
square fake-woodgrain skull. Ugh.
Bear in mind when the machine was developed : end of 60's beginning of 70's
Its exterior may leave something to be desired aesthetically but the
architecture inside is truly unique and interesting.
-- HansP
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