[cctalk] Re: First Personal Computer

On 5/24/24 11:49, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote: A friend worked with an IBM 4361 at UMSL in St. Louis.  It was very little used as the print and other unit record had a separate unit to handle that traffic to the University of Missouri, Columbia's 370-145 (later upgraded a lot). But the 4361 was his "PC" and was about ideal.  He had the system, tape drive, a few disks, and a 2741 and a couple of terminals to log on with.  Also a printer. Ran VM/SP 5 as the OS, so you could do about anything you  liked without any impact on the system as far as creating a problem. lots of toys if you knew where to get them.  I don't think they had anything but VM, or if they did wasn't complicated. I think the 4361 was the best of all of those systems, because of the integrated storage director. It had plenty of channels if you needed to add anything, and usually you'd have at least a tape drive on those. All of the air cooled systems, 31, 41, 61 and 81 had integrated com connections, so you could hook up a console, as well as a few other "regular" consoles w/o adding a controller of any sort. Thanks Jim