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The magic were the old minicomputers. My wife ran a billing system that was a Motorola based AS/400. It was purchased in 1989/90. An ibm CE would drop by and s
by Spooky23 2y ago
The magic were the old minicomputers.
My wife ran a billing system that was a Motorola based AS/400. It was purchased in 1989/90. An ibm CE would drop by and swap parts every now and again when the computer phoned home.
They retired it in 2013, when a key part for the printer was no longer available.
- tonyedgecombe 2y agoThere used to be a number of vendors selling boxes to connect mass market printers to IBM mid-range and mainframe systems. Axis was the one I worked with but there were many others. I think they had all moved on or disappeared by 2013 though.
- RaftPeople 2y ago> My wife ran a billing system that was a Motorola based AS/400 The as/400 has always been based on an IBM CPU, but it did use Motorola cpu's in the IO cards.