What a service like Google would have looked like in the 1960? - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

13 Dec 2012

360s always had  selecrtric mech based consoles as I remember.   Ed# 
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In a message dated 12/13/2012 11:03:17 A.M. Mountain Standard Time,  
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On 12/13/2012 01:23 AM,  Dave wrote:

...
   If you were
working from the console, it wouldn't  have been a
 TTY in any
 case, but probably the 1052  golf ball Selectric, which has a very
 different  sound. 
 I think in 1973 they started with remote TTYs and  NUNET 
In 1966, I personally used a TTY connected to a 360/40; but that  wasn't 
my point--I've never seen a TTY used as a console keyboard/printer  on a 
S/360 machine.  IBM would almost have certainly limited options  to a 
1050-series device for that application.

Given the 16-bit  P-counter, this would have had to have been a 360/30; 
the 360/20  addressing scheme allowed for no more than 15 bit addresses 
and I think  the actual limitation was 16K.  I don't know about the 
360/25,  however--I never saw  one.

--Chuck