14 Sep
2024
14 Sep
'24
1:58 p.m.
On 9/13/24 22:21, Mark Huffstutter via cctalk wrote:
I think David meant He saw them working on
refurbishing the panel itself. LCM Staff designed and
Built the circuitry to generate the pseudo blinkenlights effect, along with converting to
LEDs. As I recall, the
Panel was the only thing left of the original 360/91. I do remember Paul Allen had spent
a lot of time looking
For a restorable 360, ending up with mostly bad tips. Flew a Guy to a storage building in
Australia, only to
Discover in person....nope. An article mentioned that, since 360s were pretty much leased
machines, they
Returned to IBM for summary execution.....
Well, actually, the FAA's National Airspace System
commandeered all SLT cards from retired 360's to keep the
9020D and 9020E computers running. These were slightly
modified 360/50 and 360/65 processors, with small additions
to the microcode and different front panels. There were
lots of owned 360's in the 1980's.
Jon