[TUHS] Remember the ed thread?

[Rich Morin]

I spent a few years working with a CDC 3800, which also had a pneumatic card reader, along with several other noisy peripherals.  Although I have no way to prove this, I suspect that my current hearing issues stem from the noise in that machine room.

-r

> On Mar 29, 2021, at 16:21, M Douglas McIlroy <m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu> wrote:
> 
> GE outdid the printer with a fantastically fast pneumatic card reader. The make and break of the suction on each card repeated at aural frequency and so loud that I hied off to the instrument stockroom to borrow a noise meter. It was 90db at the operator's position.