22 Sep
1998
22 Sep
'98
4:28 a.m.
Chris,
I learned to program in APL on one in 1968 or 1969. We didn't have to use
punch cards, we were THE PROGRAMMERS, the machine was turned over to us
when we walked in the door. At that time it was the only computer in
central Florida. Not bad for a kid that was still in high school!
Around 1979 I worked for a third party company in Virginia that
maintained 1130s and also upgraded them with third party hardware. I well
remember adding boxs with core memory made by someone else (not IBM and not
us). I think it upgraded them to a whapping 32K! One of the 1130s that I
upgraded was owned by Gallop in Princeton, NJ. They're the people that do
the Gallop polls. Another one was owned by Virginia Military Institute in
Lexington, Va.
Those machines seem to last forever, I'll bet there's still some of them
in use!
Joe
At 09:55 AM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
At 22:33 21-09-98 +0000, Joe
<rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote:
At 09:35 PM 9/21/98 -0400, Christian Fandt wrote:
That's where my interest lies as this was my first exposure to computing.
In college I learned Fortran IV/66 in 1972/73. I've always been curious
about those machines since then. Never heard of them anymore over the past
25 (!!) years.
At least I can tell stories to the youngsters, like other "old time"
computer folks here, about spending hours in the noisy keypunch room on an
IBM 026 (I think) keypunch machine punching out my programs onto the
Hollerith cards, hauling the stack of cards (without dropping the danged
things!) over to the Computer Operator Guru to be run together in a batch
with all the other students' Fortran and Cobol programs overnite and coming
back the next morning to be greeted with several pages of compiler errors
typically generated by a very simple syntax error in the early part of my
program. No fancy-a** GUI there!! :-)
That machine was "huge" by some standards then: it had 32K of core memory!
The technical faculty at this rather small junior college was quite
impressed.
Ahhh, those were the days....
Of course, I would LOVE to have one! Anybody got one laying around they
want to get shed of?? <g!>
Have any technical/interesting facts or anecdotes about the 1130 to share
with us big iron folk Joe?
Thanks, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/
Ever hear much of an IBM 1130? Any info on the web, etc. on that machine?
Yeah, I learned to program on one. Many years later I worked on them.