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To: Neidermeyer

When our department finally got permission to acquire its own data processing computer, we got a 360/22 (a stripped-down reconditioned 360/30). We got Telex tape drives and 2311-equivalent disks. And a real IBM 1403 printer.

I wrote my first (and undoubtedly only) PL/I program on that Beest.


26 posted on 01/13/2012 10:19:24 AM PST by Erasmus (Rage, rage, against the dying of the light. Or, get out your 50mm/1.2.)
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To: Erasmus

I had a 370/168 and 7 3031-AP’s (a 3033 with channels attached to 1 cpu side only) .... I loved the operator consoles used on those.. .... had screen burn clear to the 100% mark for all channels and processors.


27 posted on 01/13/2012 10:57:40 AM PST by Neidermeyer
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