I was wrong by the way, it was the 3741 I was thinking about.  Did work on
3780s too though.

And I won't go into what I thought of the parentage of the S/3...  ;)

Dale

On Fri, 25 Jan 2002, Al Williams wrote:

> >
> > Hmmm...  3780?  I don't remember, but I worked on a ton of
> > them.  Key to diskette, key to tape, diskette to tape, etc.
> > Single green-phosphor monitor centrally mounted with a
> > two-mirror arrangement so two operators on opposite sides
> > could see their input...  man, somebody in Armonk or wherever
> > was smoking some bad weed when that thing was designed!
>
> Yep. Almost makes me nostalgic for the bursters and decollaters and the
> smell of microfilm emulsion in the COM machine. I always thought that
> perhaps the System3 was Jewish. When an I/O error occurred (like you
> left the lid off the printer or ran out of paper) the two digit display
> on the CPU would say "Oy"

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