Calif Bill wrote:
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On Fri, 7 Dec 2007 12:13:55 -0800, "Calif Bill"
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I was
about 50% through writing a program to take a plotter input tape and
convert
it to print on the 3800.
We had a PC program that would print on a 3800 from a 5150. (using the
s/370 channel emulation card set) Shoulda called me ;-)
I speak 360/370 "channel"

Before PC. Circa 1979. IBM had lots of undocumented channel codes.
Especially for maintenance. I worked my way through college as an NCR field
engineer on mostly their mainframes.

Did you ever hear of a company named Tesdata?