HBD

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• Subject: HBD
• From: bostic@okeeffe.berkeley.edu (Keith Bostic)
• Date: Mon, 22 Oct 90 12:05:56 -0700

Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Oldest running system

How's this for "Honeywell Brain Damage" (see jargon dictionary!)??

At Honeywell Defense Avionics Systems Div. here in Albuquerque, NM, we
are still depending on the HONEYWELL 1100 MANFRAME since 1957.  Data
we have online on PC's is printed out and shuttled to data entry clerks
who key in the data onto an EBCDIC tape, which is mailed to Phoenix
where the 1100 is located.  Absolutely nothing is done interactively,
it's all 100% batch.  This is still in use RIGHT NOW.  I wish this were
a joke.

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