Christian:
I have been monitoring this group for some time now, and though I find the
microcomputer material not particularly interesting, there is much here to
be enjoyed. Thank you for pointing the way.
I remain interested in the PDP-11 you have.
William R. Buckley
-----Original Message-----
From: Christian Fandt <cfandt_at_servtech.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 6:55 AM
Subject: IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socket (Off
topic)
>At 22:33 21-09-98 +0000, Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net> wrote:
>>At 09:35 PM 9/21/98 -0400, Christian Fandt wrote:
>>>
>>>Ever hear much of an IBM 1130? Any info on the web, etc. on that machine?
>>>
>>
>> Yeah, I learned to program on one. Many years later I worked on them.
>
>That's where my interest lies as this was my first exposure to computing.
>In college I learned Fortran IV/66 in 1972/73. I've always been curious
>about those machines since then. Never heard of them anymore over the past
>25 (!!) years.
>
>At least I can tell stories to the youngsters, like other "old time"
>computer folks here, about spending hours in the noisy keypunch room on an
>IBM 026 (I think) keypunch machine punching out my programs onto the
>Hollerith cards, hauling the stack of cards (without dropping the danged
>things!) over to the Computer Operator Guru to be run together in a batch
>with all the other students' Fortran and Cobol programs overnite and coming
>back the next morning to be greeted with several pages of compiler errors
>typically generated by a very simple syntax error in the early part of my
>program. No fancy-a** GUI there!! :-)
>
>That machine was "huge" by some standards then: it had 32K of core memory!
>The technical faculty at this rather small junior college was quite
>impressed.
>
>Ahhh, those were the days....
>
>Of course, I would LOVE to have one! Anybody got one laying around they
>want to get shed of?? <g!>
>
>Have any technical/interesting facts or anecdotes about the 1130 to share
>with us big iron folk Joe?
>
>Thanks, Chris
>-- --
>
>
>
>Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
>Jamestown, NY USA
>Member of Antique Wireless Association
> URL: http://www.ggw.org/freenet/a/awa/
Received on Sun Oct 04 1998 - 14:19:46 BST