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To: DownSouth who wrote (36643)	12/14/2000 2:52:45 PM
From: Snowshoe	Respond to of 54805

I started out on a Univac 1100. Big monster laid out in a T-formation on the main floor, with a second-floor balcony so folks could look down and see all the pretty blinking lights. Most of the human beings worked in the basement. Those were the days! <g>

To: DownSouth who wrote (36643)	12/14/2000 2:56:51 PM
From: Thomas Mercer-Hursh	Respond to of 54805

I worked on Univac (Sperry) 1100 series Multiprocessors) for a few years. Real horses for dbms stuff. Lousy timeshare OS. The 1108 and 1110 were my 7th and 8th machines. I did the computations and word processing on the 1108 for my dissertation, having to write a document formatter first to do the layout. Printed the final copy on a 1200 LPM band printer with approved stock and a carbon ribbon ... in all caps! One step in the computations had to be run on Sundays only since it took about 6 hours on a naked machine with me as the only user, but would not complete in the maximum job time if run during the week. One of the guys in the Computer Center there wrote a real time BASIC system that would actually support 750 users on the 1110, but you are right ... other remote users were really no more than remote job entry.