13 Dec
2012
13 Dec
'12
2:31 p.m.
360s always had selecrtric mech based consoles as I remember. Ed#
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In a message dated 12/13/2012 11:03:17 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,
cctalk-request at classiccmp.org writes:
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On 12/13/2012 01:23 AM, Dave wrote:
In 1966, I personally used a TTY connected to a 360/40; but that wasn't
my point--I've never seen a TTY used as a console keyboard/printer on a
S/360 machine. IBM would almost have certainly limited options to a
1050-series device for that application.
Given the 16-bit P-counter, this would have had to have been a 360/30;
the 360/20 addressing scheme allowed for no more than 15 bit addresses
and I think the actual limitation was 16K. I don't know about the
360/25, however--I never saw one.
--Chuck
If you were
working from the console, it wouldn't have been a
TTY in any
case, but probably the 1052 golf ball Selectric, which has a very
different sound.
I think in 1973 they started with remote TTYs and NUNET