On September 26, 2024 11:38:14 AM "Drew Derbyshire" <swhobbit@...> wrote:
In my shop when we had the /168, the 3066 was only used during IPL and
doing diagnostic work. In fact, the 168 console was stuck in a back corner
of the computer room and all the real operation was done from a bank of
real 3270s in the center
I'm reminded how at Clarkson College in the late 1970s, the S/360-65J IPLed off the 1052 in the back, but after IPL most communication with the system was done via a more centrally located DECWriter (which of course was three times as fast and far quieter).
(As a freshman at the time, I had absolutely no clue as to how one makes a DEC serial device a OS/360 system console. 46 years later, I'm still not sure I wanna know¡)
Well later on we did it with the AEA option in a 3174. I have no idea of how it would've been done back then. I'd sure like to know.
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
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