The thing that I remember about the B800 (or B80?) was that it used an
8" floppy drive. I'd never seen one before. Before that we used tapes to
load all the SW and to IPL the Burroughs machines. I remember the
instructions for the B800 said that the floppy disk should be changed every
40 hours! That's less than a standard work week! And I remember the disk
weren't cheap in those days but thinking oh well, banks own them and they
can certainly afford the costs. A good friend of mine namded Marvin Mills
from Bedford Va was the field engineer on these for the SW Virginia area.
Joe
At 08:07 PM 7/23/04 -0700, you wrote:
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>> OK, so Burroughs machines were not the easiest things on the eyes
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>um... what about that B800 ?
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>now, THATS ugly. Not quite as bad as a B90, but pretty durn ugly.
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>http://www.osfn.org/ricm/c-b800.html
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Received on Sat Jul 24 2004 - 07:55:28 BST