Re: Operating system name -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Operating system name
From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 2 May 2017 17:16:12 -0500
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SYS/3, MOD 6. No CRT. Keyboard, printer, 22"? cartridges held 250k?, OCL was important because all user input/output was through the keyboard/printer. Is it possible that the CPU memory was 5k, 3 of those k reserved for the system, all user programs ran in 2k, with overlays?

On 5/2/2017 4:49 PM, Joe Pluta wrote:

On 5/2/2017 1:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

+1 on S/3 CCP Model 15D

My first machine. 3741 diskette keypunch. 1403 band printer. Removable disk packs. 5424 MFCU (which may or may not have stood for "multi-function" depending on the day).

Bursting multi-part printouts and putting them into boxes.

Yeah, I'm old too. :)

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