end of the road

[Dave Davison]

Hi...........may not be the sharpest knife in the box but have not reached this stage yet...hope I never do....Shalom DD

[Bigaldoc]

Oh boy, that's funny. I hope it isn't a "violation" if I post that shot elsewhere!

[John Gray]

There was the ancient story that when accountants first got mainframe screens on their desks, they would display their first screen-full of the company accounts, and then tick the total figures on the glass screen with a fibre-tip pen when they had determined that the totals were correct.

Each person did this only once...

(I suspect that this anecdote is somewhat mythological, since I reckon that the IBM 2260 and 3270 screens long predated the availability of such marker pens, and that it is just an anti-accountant joke!)

[BobH]

IIRC (and I bought several thousand 2260s and 3270s) one could purchase a model that used a light pen. We used one as the operators' control interface on a System 370, as I recall.