Jasper Wrote:
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> When I hired in at IBM in 1980, the 3277, 3276 and
> 3278 terminals were EVERYWHERE, not just at the
> railroads. SP and Santa Fe were large users of the
> units, along with the 3287 dot matrix printers.
> One of my accounts was the City of Industry SP
> yard. I found I had to go onsite once a month and
> vacuum out the printers just to keep them running
> (the office at the top of the hump was a very
> dirty environment and wasn't sealed up against the
> elements!). I remember, once I moved to
> Bakersfield, getting a call from the SP on a
> printer in Edison. When I called the SP to find
> out WHERE in Edison it was, I was told to go the
> ugliest building in town. Well, that was true, no
> problems finding the building. It burned down
> about 15 years ago, if I remember correctly, no
> great loss as the computer and printer had been
> removed years before.

Actually, UP tore it down about 3 years ago. I didn't even it still existed until 2011, when I was riding an Amtrak detour train and look out the window of the car I was riding and saw it!