Front panel switches - what did they do?

[Dave Wade]

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> Subject: Re: Front panel switches - what did they do?
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> On 05/25/2016 09:01 AM, jwsmobile wrote:
> 
> > McAuto in St. Louis used a lot of the /20's for their printer farm,
> > and that was the only place I ever saw one in use.  They spooled tape
> > to printer in the use it was put to.
> 
> According to WikiP, IBM leased over 7,000 of the 20s, so that would make it a
> contender for volume--I doubt that half as many 1130s were sold.
> 

According to Wikip around 10,000 1130's were sold.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130

one salesman claims to have sold 1,000.  They were dotted about all over the place, so when I was a Student in the UK Newcastle University had a 360/67. The Polytechnic where I studied had an 1130 as an RJE station, as did Durham University, the "Gas Board", and the British Ship Research Council. Newcastle University also had an 1130 for 

As I have said else where the Institute of Oceanographic sciences had one on a ship, and at Bidston Observatory. There is one preserved at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchly. 

http://www.tnmoc.org/news/current-projects/ibm-1130-system-restoration-during-2011

which came from Liverpool University....
.. which almost takes us back in a circle, as that link shows the switches and lights.....

Dave
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