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Posted Date: Monday, August 18th, 2008

MAN plus a Computer equals a GIANT!

Believe it or not, I actually had some experience with these monsters. A Burroughs B6800, I think. To make it even weirder, I designed and built a “snooper” to convert the odd voltages used for their terminal clusters to RS-232, and was then able to hack up a program to interpret the block screens and log the traffic in files on a SCO Xenix system, running on a Compaq Deskpro 386. I used to do some pretty strange things with electronics.

Ah, 1988: t’was a good year…

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