During my mainframe computer days, someone made a foot or so long rod with a metal base. We would grab a handful of write rings and have a write ring tossing contest. During the daytime the day shift would run dozens of batch jobs on the computer, and they would queue up in the printer
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Honeywell Level 66, model 66/07. Had 384k words of memory. One word = 36 bits, so it was 1.25 megabytes. Five disk packs (removable). Three tape drives. Line printer in foreground. The video screen sitting on the mustard colored cabinet displayed all the jobs running along with their priority. Sometimes the students would be on
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