8:33 a.m.
On Wednesday 07 April 2004 14:51, William Donzelli wrote:
Hah. At least I know (hope?) you're kidding!
Pat
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That's a
big "SO WHAT" if I ever heard one!!
Yes, the S/360 was insignificant. 
9:20 a.m.
It makes us older I started my programming career on a model 360/25 back in
1969.
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Jay West wrote:
> You're right. Absolutely. So if anyone has one I'll "dispose" of
it for
you.
No problem.
Public Service & all.
Can you afford the electric bill too? :)
BTW how old does that make IBM 360 programmers today?
Ben.
7:40 a.m.
I was always partial to the 370's that loaded
microcode from 8" floppies.
To be honest, I would rather have a S/370 over an S/360, if I had a
choice.
Didn't IBM invent the floppy to load 370
microcode?
Yes, basically. I remember walking around one beast (I think a 3081) back
about 12 years ago, and seeing the power controller. It was a big six
foot box, and sure enough, there was an 8 inch floppy slot.
Come to think of it, I wouldn't mind having a 3081 or 3090 either. Or 9201
or 9121.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org
11:35 a.m.
On Thu, Apr 08, 2004 at 03:05:32PM -0400, Brad Parker wrote:
"Keys" wrote:
We were still doing that with our 4331 at Software Results in 1985.
I remember the day that the floppy disc died... too many reads had worn the
oxide off the mylar.
-ethan
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It makes us older I started my programming career
on a model 360/25 back in
1969.
I was always partial to the 370's that loaded microcode from 8" floppies.
12:54 p.m.
On Thu, 8 Apr 2004, Brad Parker wrote:
Didn't IBM invent the floppy to load 370
microcode?
Yes (invent floppy to load microcode...was it in fact the 370 for which it
was invented?)
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8:58 a.m.
On Wed, 7 Apr 2004, Jay West wrote:
I had 5 of the damn things in a warehouse - but then I realized that
they were just "so what" computers - so I had 'em hauled off for aluminum
scrap. The trucks just left.
That's the value of this List - think of all the storage space I just
freed up for keeping devices that actually 'mean something'.....
Cheers
John
> Yes, the
S/360 was insignificant.
You're right. Absolutely. So if anyone has one
I'll "dispose" of it for you.
No problem. Public Service & all. 
9:48 a.m.
At 03:51 PM 4/7/2004, you wrote:
It was extremely significant in it's day and quite successful also.
Customers used to buy and sell delivery dates for a lot of money just to
get an earlier delivery.
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Gene Ehrich
gehrich(a)tampabay.rr.com
That's a
big "SO WHAT" if I ever heard one!!
Yes, the S/360 was insignificant.
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