19 Nov
2016
19 Nov
'16
8:38 p.m.
On 11/19/2016 01:00 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
The /20 was very limited, and not a general purpose 360.
There was also the 360/22 and 360/25 that were variants of
the /30 model. One was cheaper, one was a little faster.
But, if they were doing mostly RPG work, then a /20 could do
that.
Jon
From: William
Degnan
for all that I have read about the actual use of
the /20 that was not
what it was for. IBM used the /20's as a smart terminal and that kind
of thing. The thing in between the mainframe and something else
operating in a remote location, and so on.
When I was working at IBM Bermuda (as sort of an intern), they used a 360/20
as their main service bureau machine. (I'm pretty sure it was a /20, and not a
/30.) It had a card reader/punch, 4 (IIRC) tape drives, and a 1403 printer.