Upon the date 03:58 AM 10/14/99 -0400, Innfogra(a)aol.com said something like: I feel you're right in your assessment of 1130 availability Paxton. These machines were long obsolete 15 or more years ago and back then nobody felt like keeping a big old useless thing around after moving up to more modern machine(s). Except of course those who needed to keep it on hand to support customers for which they'd written 1130 software apps or those who had an ancient but important database to maintain. The 1130 was my very first contact with a computer back in 'Spring of '72. Like Sgt. McQuiggan and one or two others who mentioned it here, I also learned Fortran on that model which was the very first computer installed at our Jamestown Community College. Jeez, if I only knew back then how computers would be placed in our everyday lives, I would have put a much stronger focus on learning everything possible about it and any associated software. But I was a 19-year-old kid and had no sense of what the future would hold so took the course because it was required for my degree. For that matter, relative to computers in general, I think very _few_ folks in '72 had in mind how they would become so pervasive in our lives so soon as they have. I still have my 1130 Fortran IV 1966 textbook :) I'd really like to get an 1130 myself and indeed just missed one from out East of me at Cornell U. last year. One of our fellow list members got it :) Regards, Chris -- -- Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian Jamestown, NY USA cfandt(a)netsync.net Member of Antique Wireless Association URL: http://www.antiquewireless.org/