1 Mar
2005
1 Mar
'05
10:32 a.m.
I wrote:
The Computer History Museum in Mountain View CA USA
has a 360/30. I hope
we can restore it someday.
William wrote:
IBM. Tough stuff.
Henk wrote:
Why is restoring IBM stuff so tough ?
Suppose we try to restore the 360/30, and one of the hybrid SLT
modules is bad. Where do you suppose we'll find a replacement? Most
likely we would have to try to fabricate one, assuming that we could
find or reverse-engineer a schematic for the particular module.
By comparison, restoring a machine like a PDP-1 is a piece of cake,
because all of the components are readily visible.
Eric