22 Sep
1998
22 Sep
'98
3:08 p.m.
Yeah man! Where???????!!!!!!! I'll rent a tent
and camp out at the place
which has one until either they get tired of it or that Y2K thing obsoletes
it. W. Donzelli would be camping right next to me I think.
No, I will be letting the air of your car's tires.
Seriously, that would be, in my opinion, the most
excellent find! As I
mentioned, I have never heard of any around these days. They were, I
believe, not the typical mainline computers one would hear of in business
like the S/360's and S/370's. Weren't they more used in R&D and academia
because of their ability to handle number crunching not so much as
databases like a business application would?
I know little about 1103s, but they were indeed built for number crunching
for people that could not afford a big S/360. The 1103 is related to the
1800, used for process control (leading to the S/7).
William Donzelli
william(a)ans.net