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.
A pity that UK related stuff goes to the US where we can't see and touch
it....
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Dave Wade G4UGM
Illegitimi Non Carborundum
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