Your Post: In September 1971, the RCA Corporation announced that it was abandoning the computer industry and Sperry acquired RCA’s Computer division. RCA had marketed the Spectra 70 Series (70/15, 70/25, 70/35, 70/45, 70/46, 70/55, 70/60, 70/61) that were compatible with The IBM System/360 series and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370.
Wikipedi: RCA marketed the Spectra 70 Series (models 15, 25, 35, 45, 46, 55, 60 and 61) that were hardware, but not software, compatible with IBM’s System/360 series, and the RCA Series (RCA 2, 3, 6, 7) competing against the IBM System/370.[17]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RCA
your right. i should have said similar. hey it was 30 years ago. and the nice part was we didn’t need to learn a whole new operating system, utilities, jcl, etc. to help the company out.