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Two mathematical jobs, Anchor problem and Best Mix ( &#8220;mineral job&#8221; ) were totally self-contained jobs that I had little or nothing to do with. Also if I remember correctly neither jobs were significantly modified to take advantage of the later addition of the Ferranti drum, which if my memory is correct had a significant impact on the performance and running of the payroll suite. Because these two jobs were considered as &#8220;extra demanding&#8221; the operations staff used to advise us engineers when they were going to run these two jobs and when I was the duty engineer I used to go and listen to these two jobs running because they generated a totally different &#8220;music&#8221; to that we heard when running payroll. We engineers learnt a lot from the &#8220;music&#8221; during 30 mins or so of morning tests and this gave us a clue to how the system was behaving! 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