From: "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <znmeb@...>
Date: 2007-07-21T13:45:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Taking the bull by its horns [was background]

Morton Goldberg wrote:
> On Jul 21, 2007, at 12:03 AM, Morton Goldberg wrote:
> 
>> ... was its propensity for throwing its console typewriter's zero key
>> across the room. The console typewriter was a pre-golf-ball model with
>> lever keys. The zero key, by far the most used key, was continually
>> fatiguing off and going airborne.
> 
> Let me say -- before somebody else points it out -- that I know the
> console typewriter wasn't designed to do the job of a line printer. I
> heard that song from the IBM maintenance guy every time he had to
> install a new zero key. The company I worked for was too cheap to by a
> line printer. We eventually got a drum plotter for the 1620, but we
> never got a real printer for it.
> 
> Regards, Morton
> 
> 
When I worked in a 1620 shop, we had a 407 to generate the reports from
punched cards out of the 1620.