IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer so - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

23 Sep 1998

 During my last year in high school in Kensington, Maryland in 1969 an 
 IBM 1103 was installed with about twenty terminals for student use. I 
 never used the 1103 although I 'majored' in data processing which 
 included IBM EAM (Electronic Accounting Machine) plug board wiring and 
 operation (sorting, collating, keypunching, verifying, gang punching 
 printing etc. etc. by the way, if anybody has an old plug board 
 available for sale or trade I would be most grateful). I LOVED the old 
 punch card gear. It was fun wiring plug boards. 

 Marty

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Subject: Re: IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socke
Author:  classiccmp(a)u.washington.edu at internet
Date:    9/22/98 11:10 PM

...
  Yeah man! Where???????!!!!!!!   I'll rent a tent
and camp out at the place 
 which has one until either they get tired of it or that Y2K thing obsoletes 
 it. W. Donzelli would be camping right next to me I think.  
 No, I will be letting the air of your car's tires.

...
  Seriously, that would be, in my opinion, the most
excellent find! As I 
 mentioned, I have never heard of any around these days. They were, I
 believe, not the typical mainline computers one would hear of in business 
 like the S/360's and S/370's. Weren't they more used in R&D and academia

 because of their ability to handle number crunching not so much as
 databases like a business application would?  
 I know little about 1103s, but they were indeed built for number crunching 
 for people that could not afford a big S/360. The 1103 is related to the 
 1800, used for process control (leading to the S/7).

 William Donzelli
 william(a)ans.net

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