Re: MIDRANGE-L Digest, Vol 4, Issue 120

[Terry@xxxxxxxxxx]

>date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 10:38:07 -0800 (PST)
>from: "James H H Lampert" <jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>subject: Re: Is IPL necessary?

>> Had to do the old 3-4 to get it restarted.

>Huh?


I think what he's referring to are the old rotary switched on the operator 
panel of the Sys/38.  You set one to position 3 and one to position 4, 
then pressed the (correct me if memory fails me) power on button.  This 
was how you 'cold-started' the '38.

The Sys/38 also had a big red button that you had to pull to do an 
emergency shutdown.  I recall one time someone was on the phone in the 
computer room and for the receiver cord tangled around this button, and 
yanked on the cord to free it...

Terry Richardson
Vermont Information Processing, Inc.
terry@xxxxxxxxxx