10 Apr
2024
10 Apr
'24
6:35 a.m.
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:
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.
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?