GE Mainframes (235) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

28 Jan 1999

Hi John,

You know the mind works in weird ways.

Your message just made some of my synapes fire.

I believe you work for MGM right?  I don't know if you
caught my message from a few weeks ago, but I
have a Qantel that my wife occasionally uses in our
business.

I remember hearing about 10 years ago that one
of the markets that Qantel captured early on (late 70's?)
was the intertainment industry.  They used to have 
applications for off the wall vertical markets (e.g.
film studios, football teams, etc).  

Have you ever seen one of these in use in your
travels?  I'm always surprized by what's still out
there chugging away after all of these years.

Jon
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  The Very First Computer I ever saw, in 1965, was the brand-new GE 
235 that my father's company had installed.  Because he was a VP, I 
got to actually *go in the room* with all that machinery, though I 
was but 12. Of course I died right then and went straight to Heaven.

  My question to the List is: are there any of these GE machines 
from that era still extant? (let alone still working...)

  My absolute/ultimate Vintage Computer fantasy would be to have 
that old 235 up and running...  just so I could *smell* it once 
more.  I have never forgotten the warm smell of all that 
electronics, and the Ampex tape machines, and the printer clattering 
away....

    Sigh.

  I have pictures of the 235 and 635....  but it's not the same...

  Cheerz

John