[Sussex] Worth a read

[John Crowhurst]

> OK, it took me about 45 seconds to find out on Google and it is not
> exactly a mainstream component (or perhaps name for a component); it's a
> bit like asking at IT person what one of those four-digit hardware codes
> that IBM (used to) use - you know, like 3294 and we're all supposed to
> know that it's a DASD or whatever it is.

DASD is Direct Access Storage Device, IBM mainframe terminology for a disk
drive.

The only IBM codes I remember off by heart are 3270 (because of its
emulation), which were form based (rather than character based) teletype
machines, and 4690 which were POS (Point Of Sale) machines.

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John