Re: Mystery system

2016-02-05 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 6:34 PM, Liam Proven wrote: > On 5 February 2016 at 17:16, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: >> (Norwegian "inn" is the same as English "in") >> :-) > > Og "i" også, er det ikke sant? det stemmer. :-) > > -- > Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile > Email:

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-05 Thread Liam Proven
On 5 February 2016 at 17:16, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: > (Norwegian "inn" is the same as English "in") > :-) Og "i" også, er det ikke sant? -- Liam Proven • Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lpro...@cix.co.uk • GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lpro...@hotmail.c

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-05 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/05/2016 12:16 AM, Jim Stephens wrote: On 2/4/2016 9:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I was there on a tour, a few years earlier. I think they still had the model 195 at the time. A vast facility filled with big blue boxes. They had two 195's at McAuto in STL. We may have gone on the same tour

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-05 Thread Jim Stephens
On 2/5/2016 8:16 AM, Torfinn Ingolfsen wrote: On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Mike Loewen wrote: > >The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top, >labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some >sort of IBM 370, perhaps? Funny that the

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-05 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 2:48 AM, Mike Loewen wrote: > >The drives appear to be IBM 3420s, but with an additional box on top, > labeled "SMS". The system itself doesn't appear in any of the shots. Some > sort of IBM 370, perhaps? Funny that the SMS box shows "INNPUT" - it looks like it was wri

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Jim Stephens
On 2/4/2016 9:30 PM, Jon Elson wrote: I was there on a tour, a few years earlier. I think they still had the model 195 at the time. A vast facility filled with big blue boxes. They had two 195's at McAuto in STL. We may have gone on the same tour, probably in 72 or so. I am not sure if it

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Jim Stephens
On 2/4/2016 6:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Brent Hilpert
On 2016-Feb-04, at 5:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: > I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" > (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: > > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png > http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png > http://q7.neurotica.com/ki

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/04/2016 11:22 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: On 02/04/2016 08:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote: Some models of 3420s were 7 track. Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to handle old, archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw one. Most

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Chuck Guzis
On 02/04/2016 08:25 PM, Jon Elson wrote: On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote: Some models of 3420s were 7 track. Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to handle old, archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw one. Most sites got rid of their 7-tk stuff as soon as

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/04/2016 08:57 PM, William Donzelli wrote: Some models of 3420s were 7 track. Yes, I suppose there was a need in some installations to handle old, archival tapes. But, I certainly never saw one. Most sites got rid of their 7-tk stuff as soon as they could. Jon

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread William Donzelli
Some models of 3420s were 7 track. -- Will On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Jon Elson wrote: > On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: >> >> >>I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" >> (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: >> >>

Re: Mystery system

2016-02-04 Thread Jon Elson
On 02/04/2016 07:48 PM, Mike Loewen wrote: I'm trying to identify a system which appeared in "The Killer Elite" (1975), with a room full of tape drives and a couple of terminals: http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-1.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-2.png http://q7.neurotica.com/killer-6.png