[El Gato]

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. :)

[El Gato]

The something or other was the -1620, I think. Later I was an operator for a small company, first on an -1170 and later on a System 3, that was about 1971 I think. Boring job, and the hours got cut way back when they got the -3 because it's printer was so much faster and because you could do backups to a removable disk, whereas with 1170 we had to do backups to cards (needless to say, we didn't back up the whole drive, just critical running totals, tiny though it may have been by todays standards.)