History of Computing exam question - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

30 Nov 2001

At 12:08 PM 11/30/01 -0600, you wrote:
...
 I would add: HP2000 timeshare system..widely used,
often provided the 
first exposure to computers that got many of us started in the field. 
My first intro to "real" computers:
IBM's ITF (interactive terminal facility) timeshare system that 
ran on the 360/370 mainframes.
Not widely used (I heard it was 10 installations worldwide), 
but must have been a huge development effort on the part of IBM.
A scaled down locked down (but I did figure out how to crash it) TSO with
Basic and PL/I programming langs.
Changed my life, possibly for the worse,  25+ years ago.   Hmm...

Others I'd put on the list from personal experience:
IBM/360
Early HP3000 (series I,II,III)
PDP-11
Apple II
IBM PC 5150