17 Mar
2010
17 Mar
'10
6:28 p.m.
On 3/17/10, Brent Hilpert <hilpert at cs.ubc.ca> wrote:
Jos Dreesen wrote:
I've never heard much about the CPU for the 305 system - technical specs,
architecture description or how it compared with other contemporary IBM
CPUs.
I don't have specific technical data at my fingertips, but
anecdotally, I worked for a guy whose father ran a 305 RAMAC in
Columbus, OH. The machine was at Columbus Coated Fabrics (think
"flocked wallpaper"), a division (eventually) of Borden Chemical
(think "milk, glue, scratch-n-sniff...") According to the stories, it
was the second computer in commercial use in Columbus.
-ethan