Originally Posted by
India Four Two
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!
For you youngsters out there, I should point out that users were not allowed in the hallowed space of the machine room. I punched my cards, submitted them and sometime later, would get some printout, possibly with a pithy, scribbled comment from the operator.
My wife
was allowed to run her own stuff, simply because there were no operators available between 22:00 and 08:00. Just one engineer on site, drinking tea and reading Komic Kuts.
That was to start with, anyway.
Her 'privileged' access, in common with other women on site was terminated because of unexplained machine crashes, which only seemed to happen when the operator was of the female gender. Eventually it turned out that this was due to the fashion of the day: huge wide skirts and about 6 petticoats, which created so much static that it caused the 360 to stutter & stop.
Funny old world back then...