On 8/6/12 4:21 AM, Peter Van Peborgh wrote:
Guys,
I am sending this to all who have registered an interest in the IBM 7090 and museums.
Sorry if I got some people wrong!
This computer started life at AWRE in the UK (nuclear weapons design?!) and finished in
the Medical Computing department at Manchester Uni in 1970, where it ran for 10-20 years.
It had 4 channels, 32K memory, card reader, card punch, 300 LPM barrel printer and ?20
mag tapes. It also had an IBM 1401 for printer I/O.
I have now surveyed the stuff available. There is no hardware. It is a lot of (probably
complete) hardware documentation, cicuit diagrams, s/w documentation (IBSYS, etc) also.
Also a lot of mag tapes
of mixed content and some card trays of mixed content.
Are any of you out there interested? It is all quite heavy so transport will be a
challenge, but surmountable!
The Computer History Museum in California is interested, and I can take care of the
shipping costs.