13 Dec
2012
13 Dec
'12
1:23 a.m.
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From: cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org
[mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
Sent: 13 December 2012 00:54
To: General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts
Subject: Re: What a service like Google would have looked
like in the 1960?
On 12/12/2012 03:53 PM, Al Kossow wrote:
It depends on your environment. At Newcastle University (UK) they ran MTS on
a 360/67 and on a Saturday morning I did run my own programs from the
console. I guess this was 1972 but the machine had been in place in the late
1960's.
http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/15.html
I doubt you would get the wood these days...
The operator interaction with the program was
pretty weird.
Maybe whoever created this animation didn't realize you didn't
run your own program from the system console of a 360.
If you were working from the console, it wouldn't
have been a
TTY in any
case, but probably the 1052 golf ball Selectric, which has a very
different sound.
I think in 1973 they started with remote TTYs and NUNET
--Chuck
Dave Wade G4UGM
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