25 May
2016
25 May
'16
12:35 p.m.
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From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-bounces at classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis
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Subject: Re: Front panel switches - what did they do?
On 05/25/2016 09:01 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
According to Wikip around 10,000 1130's were sold.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130
one salesman claims to have sold 1,000. They were dotted about all over the place, so
when I was a Student in the UK Newcastle University had a 360/67. The Polytechnic where I
studied had an 1130 as an RJE station, as did Durham University, the "Gas
Board", and the British Ship Research Council. Newcastle University also had an 1130
for
As I have said else where the Institute of Oceanographic sciences had one on a ship, and
at Bidston Observatory. There is one preserved at The National Museum of Computing,
Bletchly.
http://www.tnmoc.org/news/current-projects/ibm-1130-system-restoration-duri…
which came from Liverpool University....
.. which almost takes us back in a circle, as that link shows the switches and
lights.....
Dave
G4UGM
McAuto in St. Louis used a lot of the /20's
for their printer farm,
and that was the only place I ever saw one in use. They spooled tape
to printer in the use it was put to.
According to WikiP, IBM leased over 7,000 of the 20s, so that would make it a
contender for volume--I doubt that half as many 1130s were sold.