On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 6:46 PM, Dave Horsfall <dave@horsfall.org> wrote:

Have you any idea how fast the IBM 1403 printer can slew blank pages?
Cough cough...

yep

It chewed through a box in an instant, and I got to
re-pack it afterwards. You also learned to not place your coffee cup on
it (I was doing the midnight shift at the time), because when it ran out
of paper then the door would open automatically...

What's coffee - try beer glass/plastic cup.

Once nice thing about raised floors is they kept your beer cold. On weekend if we were having a party, I would bring a gallon milk jug fresh from the tap's at my fraternity and put it under the floor.

I could usually bribe another operator to stay over for an unpaid hour or so when the backups first ran. Then we would finish our beers and if I was lucky, the "console bell" was a fire alarm. So with a patch to the TSS kernel you could get it ring the console bell when the system needed human attention. I could then go into the printer paper room where there was an Tek 4010 graphics tube. Thus I could either go off to hack for a while knowing that I would be called if the system needed me.

Clem