19 Dec
2007
19 Dec
'07
7:45 a.m.
On 19 Dec 2007 at 8:41, cctalk-request at classiccmp.org wrote:
From: "Roy J. Tellason" <rtellason at
verizon.net>
Unfortunate as in it wasn't directly accessible then? I thought that the
point of such a setup was to keep a file accessible in digital form. Or
is that some sort of offline storage, like punched cards?
It depended on your idea of "accessible". It was "accessible" on the
scale of, oh, say, a book requested through inter-library loan is
"accessible". Make a request, find a good Russian novel to read and
hope your file hasn't been lost.
There was a very-much-frowned-upon program that was popular among
users to open and close every single file cataloged under your
account just to avoid the dreaded Photostore.
The 1360 was very typical of the wonderful Rube Goldberg-style of
mechanical engineering that IBM was capable of. Second perhaps only
to the 3850 MSS or the 2321 DCD. Certainly in a different league
from the competition (e.g., NCR CRAM), although the
ill-fated CDC
SCROLL comes close...
Cheers,
Chuck