15 Sep
2024
15 Sep
'24
5:22 a.m.
Yes, LCM had just the console. I left UCLA and moved to CDC land at
UW-Seattle in '78. I don't know what happened to, or replaced, the 360/91.
The main machine room at LCM was impressive. At one time I had used all
the (types of) machines in it.
Dave
On 9/13/24 8:21 PM, 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.....
The LCM was working on rebuilding a 360/30 they did locate, a considerably smaller entry
level 360.
When I last saw it they had considerable power supply rebuilding to accomplish.
Mark
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>> And perhaps craziest of all, $189k for a
360/91 console display.
>> Just the lights panel, nothing more.
> Well, that might be all thatthe interior decorators wanted, for
> hanging on the wall
On Fri, 13 Sep 2024, David C. Jenner wrote:
This was from the 360/91 at UCLA when I was there
in the 1970s. I
recall seeing them working on refurbishing it when I was last at the
LCM a few years ago.
If the machine was being refurbished, why was the console display separated from the
machine?