IBM 1130 arrived from Austria

On 11/29/2005 at 12:24 AM woodelf wrote: It'd be closer to 40 if you got one when the system was new. A very odd bird--I think many business customers opted instead for the S/360-20 as an entry system. The first cousin of the 1130, the 1800, however, enjoyed quite a run as a process-control computer. I know that the Standard Oil refinery not too far from my home used one. One of the problems with the 1130 is that it was a dead-end; there was no real upgrade path beyond core increments and a few peripheral choices. In particular, I'm not aware of anyone trying to hook a 729 tape drive to one, nor even sure that it could be done. I hope Bob can get this thing working, though I don't envy him working with old core that's been through a long-distance voyage. I suppose there's always SRAM if the memory's not salvageable. I didn't spend that much time on the 1130 (8K models were sort of limited), but I do remember the Selectric console typewriter and the 2315 cartridge drive--and a very small instruction set that one could learn in an afternoon. Cheers, Chuck