[300winmag]

Jen, girlfriend, have you ever even seen Windows 3.1? What languages do you code?

Amateur. I have a 1960 manual for the IBM 88 collator. I even remember seeing those things in the old days. Never could figure out how they worked. Maybe I'll read the manual.

I think I have a 1955-vintage manual for and IBM 650 around here somewhere. When the school took a donated IBM 650 back in the late 1960s, we quickly convinced them they did NOT want to use it. Had the power of a moderately-healthy programmable calculator.

Instead, we got to strip it for scap. I got some of the nameplates somewhere, but the but prize was the half-horse motor that spun the 10K drum memory. It is still powering my dad's table saw.

[Bear_in_RoseBear]

Never could figure out how they worked.

RTFM!

Maybe I'll read the manual.

Oh, forget I said anything.

[Ramius]

Holy cow... Sorry dude, but any IBM "big iron" with a three-digit model number is waaay before my time. :-)

You win, hands down. My experience with big iron began with the Amdahl 7000 that WSU had in the computer center there.

[Rose in RoseBear]

<bowing to the champion!>

Okay, you win! But what's the oldest computer you ever actaully used as a computer?

System 360 for me! In college.