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From: gis@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Brian L. Stuart)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers
Subject: Re: Lights on Burroughs machines
Message-ID: <6454@mentor.cc.purdue.edu>
Date: 16 Jan 90 20:40:33 GMT
References: <1990Jan15.173434.5792@virtech.uucp>
Reply-To: gis@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Brian L. Stuart)
Organization: Purdue University
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In article <1990Jan15.173434.5792@virtech.uucp> jje@virtech.uucp (Jeremy J. Epstein) writes:
>Rumor had it that the Burroughs B7700 would display the giant
>"Burroughs B" on its banks of lights when it was in idle state.
>I never saw it though...

Sure did.  I had a chance to see it when I was goofing around on
one one evening.  I was (now get this) doing some BASIC on punched
cards.  It didn't spell out Burroughs; it just displayed a "B" and
not a perfect one at that.  I suppose it wasn't completely idle
though.

Brian L. Stuart
Department of Computer Science
Purdue University