6 Nov
2005
6 Nov
'05
8:45 p.m.
...
The 1400 series was specifically designed to clear out
a
bunch of the older, hard to maintain, unit record equipment.
Use as an effective sidekick for some of the 7000 series was
a happy surprise for IBM.
This site says otherwise.
http://simh.trailing-edge.com/i1401.html
I am sure I have read it elsewhere as well.
The IBM archive just says it was used for both, but gives no design
objective.
I was on the user side, so I have no special information. It would be
interesting to hear from an insider.
Gil
William Donzelli
aw288 at osfn.org