Chris, I learned to program in APL on one in 1968 or 1969. We didn't have to use punch cards, we were THE PROGRAMMERS, the machine was turned over to us when we walked in the door. At that time it was the only computer in central Florida. Not bad for a kid that was still in high school! Around 1979 I worked for a third party company in Virginia that maintained 1130s and also upgraded them with third party hardware. I well remember adding boxs with core memory made by someone else (not IBM and not us). I think it upgraded them to a whapping 32K! One of the 1130s that I upgraded was owned by Gallop in Princeton, NJ. They're the people that do the Gallop polls. Another one was owned by Virginia Military Institute in Lexington, Va. Those machines seem to last forever, I'll bet there's still some of them in use! Joe At 09:55 AM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote: >At 22:33 21-09-98 +0000, Joe <rigdonj(a)intellistar.net> wrote: >>At 09:35 PM 9/21/98 -0400, Christian Fandt wrote: >>> >>>Ever hear much of an IBM 1130? Any info on the web, etc. on that

>>> >> >> Yeah, I learned to program on one. Many years later I worked on them. > >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