GEISCO, yes, we used the timesharing service to produce daily production
stats, would have been 1979-80. I even remember the userid was MEM76353. But
no acoustic couplers - it needed a dedicated dialup line, with a normal
looking telephone save for an extra button on top - create the datafile (on
a keyboard with printer), dial up the access number, hear the warble, press
the telephone button, all done. Then walk down the road to the building with
the IT department, log on to the PDP11, do an rje to get the printout. Load
the line printer with multipart paper, don earmuffs, run the printjob. Then
spend the next 30 minutes splitting out the copies from the carbon paper - I
can still smell the paper!
Piers
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From: olympus
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Jez Cunningham
Sent: 05 November 2017 15:13
To: Olympus Camera Discussion
Subject: Re: [OM] OT:Technology Survey
Yup. Not that early a date but we ran our corporate purchasing database
using Geisco and acoustic coupled TI Silent 700s.
On Sun, 5 Nov 2017 at 12:38, brian gray via olympus <
olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> While we are discussing early experiences with computers, has anyone
> else memories of using a GEIS computer online about 1967?
> My recollection is of using a teleprinter in a small room in the UK and
> linking to a computer somewhere in the USA, presumably within General
> Electric. One could write simple programs in an early BASIC and it was
> a great improvement on a slide rule or the available desk calculators,
> and did not require those of us doing R&D to access the main IT
> department of the organisation for time on their mainframe.
> Brian Gray
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