At 22:33 21-09-98 +0000, Joe &lt;rigdonj(a)intellistar.net&gt; wrote: That's where my interest lies as this was my first exposure to computing. In college I learned Fortran IV/66 in 1972/73. I've always been curious about those machines since then. Never heard of them anymore over the past 25 (!!) years. At least I can tell stories to the youngsters, like other "old time" computer folks here, about spending hours in the noisy keypunch room on an IBM 026 (I think) keypunch machine punching out my programs onto the Hollerith cards, hauling the stack of cards (without dropping the danged things!) over to the Computer Operator Guru to be run together in a batch with all the other students' Fortran and Cobol programs overnite and coming back the next morning to be greeted with several pages of compiler errors typically generated by a very simple syntax error in the early part of my program. No fancy-a** GUI there!! :-) That machine was "huge" by some standards then: it had 32K of core memory! The technical faculty at this rather small junior college was quite impressed. Ahhh, those were the days.... Of course, I would LOVE to have one! Anybody got one laying around they want to get shed of?? <g!> Have any technical/interesting facts or anecdotes about the 1130 to share with us big iron folk Joe? Thanks, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/