I remember that building well! My only visit there was at 2 am
though! I had a 6250bpi GCR mag tape and my drive only did 1600, so a
friend who worked there took it from me and converted it.
I thought I would be interrogated by the guard, but apparently
small-hours deliveries were commonplace!
Funny though, now my friend denies it was him :-)
cheers,
Nigel
On 2024-04-10 09:35, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I remember some early days of my computing years. I
visited IBM at Eglinton
E. & Don Mills Rd., its sprawling complex. I knew a project manager from
IBM when he worked at their new facility in Vaughan. I don’t think I truly
realized the seminal work done at IBM then(60's&70's).
Murray 😊
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM Paul Berger via cctalk <
cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 2024-04-10 2:21 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
>> On 4/9/24 22:03, ben via cctalk wrote:
>>> On 2024-04-09 8:53 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
>>>> I had not realized the IBM 360 was 60 yrs. old this month. I worked on
>>>> such
>>>> a computer in the late 60s in Toronto. What one could do with 8 Kbytes
> of
>>>> ram was remarkable!
>>>>
>>>> Happy computing
>>>>
>>>> Murray 🙂
>>> Real time sharing, not a 16K PDP 8?
>> What model of a 360? 8K sounds a lot like a Model 20, which the purists
>> may not consider to be a "real" member of the family.
>>
>> --Chuck
>>
>>
> The IBM Don Mills plant in Toronto built model 20s. I knew guys who
> bought their houses with the overtime working on them. They had
> accumulated a lot of engineering changes that had not been cut into
> production, so they would be assembled and then there where teams that
> would apply the engineering changes before the systems where shipped.
>
> Paul.
>
>
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