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To: Vermonter
I remember working at Gallo Winery (I was a teenager) and was working in the "computer room," which was the entire basement of the office building. This was in 1960-1961. Don't know what the computer was, but it was enormous, and I DO remember the head of the department making music come out from somewhere on the machine. What a monster!!
35 posted on 04/05/2004 6:17:51 PM PDT by EggsAckley (.......John Kerry suffers from delusions of adequacy........)
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To: EggsAckley
Given the time frame and size, may have been a 7090 or 7094. Our first 360/65 ran 7094 emulation on third shift until the older programs were converted. It required all 16 tape drives - 8 each on the A and B channels being emulated. The 790X was too powerful to have unit record input and output - all tape. The meager tasks of card-to-tape and tape-to-printer were done by a 1401.
46 posted on 04/05/2004 6:26:27 PM PDT by NCjim
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