Reproducing old machines with newer technology

Jay Jaeger cube1 at charter.net
Tue Jul 14 10:58:25 CDT 2015


I wonder if there is anywhere near enough information available to do a
Stretch.

JRJ

On 7/14/2015 6:53 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
>     > From: Jay Jaeger
> 
>     > I am going to attempt to do the same for IBM's 1410 computer - a really
>     > big effort.
> 
> Now, the IBM machine you (or someone) should _really_ do is the IBM Stretch
> (7030); although judged a commercial failure at the time, in retrospect it's
> clearly one of the most ground-breaking designs of all time. (In fact, I have
> a hard time coming up with other machines with the same level of
> impact/influence, in terms of CPU internal architecture. Maybe Atlas, or the
> 801?)
> 
> 	Noel
> 


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