To: FreedomFarmer
AS 400 AS 400 is a "mainframe"?????
We called those "mini computers" back when I worked on 370-168's.
I forget the desination of the real bruts that came right after the 370-168 line, and right before the 43x1 line. Now THAT was a great big honking, water cooled, beast.
6 posted on
04/05/2004 5:50:29 PM PDT by
narby
(Clarke's job was to prevent terrorist attacks, but he's better at CYA)
To: narby
The 3033
7 posted on
04/05/2004 5:51:29 PM PDT by
NCjim
To: narby
desination = designation (my spellings horrible, that one was unrecognizable)
8 posted on
04/05/2004 5:51:56 PM PDT by
narby
(Clarke's job was to prevent terrorist attacks, but he's better at CYA)
To: narby
The 370/168s were the most-space-consuming if I recall. Out 370/168MP with dual sets of outboard channel boxes was impressive. Of course the largest I/O device will always be the 3850 B4 - IBM's honeycomb hideout... :-)
11 posted on
04/05/2004 5:53:51 PM PDT by
NCjim
To: narby
AS/400 IS a mainframe. You'd be amazed how much those little toasters can keep track of, for their size.
The now dead HP3000s were the same. You could run the IRS on a $150K box, with an acre of EMC drives.
12 posted on
04/05/2004 5:56:04 PM PDT by
txhurl
(The Jihadists: spectacular media violence, zero military significance, huge psych significance.)
To: narby
As I remember, forty years ago it was the 1401. Thirty five years ago was the 1410. Thirty years ago the 365 was going and the 370 was coming.
To: narby
I forget the desination of the real bruts that came right after the 370-168 line, and right before the 43x1 line. Now THAT was a great big honking, water cooled, beast.
Nice for you yung'ns, but I learned my FORTRAN on an IBM 360-65. Then I had to regress and for a semester I used an IBM something or other that my thesis adviser (to be, not then) called the CADET, because it Couldn't Add, Didn't Even Try. It used table look up for arithmetic done in BCD (Binary Coded Decimal) . It was an antique even then. It part of the line of the first transistor computers, discrete transistors you understand. It could play the fight song via a line connected to one of it's registers. It could also play 3D tic tac toe, and it did both in a UV lit room one E-week back around 1970. :)
68 posted on
04/05/2004 7:00:09 PM PDT by
El Gato
(Federal Judges can twist the Constitution into anything.. Or so they think.)
To: narby
I've got two friends who worked for Cray for some time.
116 posted on
04/05/2004 9:06:29 PM PDT by
NotJustAnotherPrettyFace
(Michael <a href = "http://www.michaelmoore.com/" title="Miserable Failure">"Miserable Failure"</a>)
To: narby
I haven't operated anything newer than a SYS 360/50. Do you still have to wire plug-boards to run these things? Bwaahahahaha!
120 posted on
04/05/2004 9:21:10 PM PDT by
ApplegateRanch
(The world needs more horses, and fewer Jackasses!)
To: narby
My dad ran a shop with a 3090 and 68 spools of DASD and I was there the day the "chiller" sprang a leak. It ran through a hole in the floor and peed all over a VAX (DEC-sh*t). I think he was actually proud of it.
178 posted on
04/06/2004 12:55:08 PM PDT by
freepy smurf
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