27 Oct
2000
27 Oct
'00
6:24 a.m.
Gene Ehrich <gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
While having a conversation with an old IBM buddy of
mine we fondly
remembered our days with the IBM 7030 (Stretch) computer. It was used to
prototype the 360 before it came out. It was a real monster with only 8
ever built (and sold). Does anybody else remember this monster?
Not from personal experience. But I have a web page about it:
http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/stretch/
The Computer Museum History Center has one almost-complete 7030 system
from Livermore. They don't have much in the way of
documentation.
If anyone has anything they can either donate to the museum or make
available for copying, please let me know.
In particular, it would be nice if they could get the theory-of-operation
manual (which apparently consisted of at least nine volumes) and a print
set.