Joe:
I learned APL as my first language, at Orange Coast College in Costa Mesa
California (Orange county, in So Cal) in 1972. We had an IBM 370/155H at
the time, 1MB of RAM (as I understood it, the RAM was semiconductor), and
the version of APL was from STSC, called APL PLUS. What a step down to
then learn Cobol, Fortran, and RPG, though Assembly (ALC) was a lot of fun.
We have come a long way since then.
William R. Buckley
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe <rigdonj_at_intellistar.net>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, September 22, 1998 8:48 AM
Subject: Re: IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socket (Off
topic)
>Chris,
>
> I learned to program in APL on one in 1968 or 1969. We didn't have to use
>punch cards, we were THE PROGRAMMERS, the machine was turned over to us
>when we walked in the door. At that time it was the only computer in
>central Florida. Not bad for a kid that was still in high school!
>
> Around 1979 I worked for a third party company in Virginia that
>maintained 1130s and also upgraded them with third party hardware. I well
>remember adding boxs with core memory made by someone else (not IBM and not
>us). I think it upgraded them to a whapping 32K! One of the 1130s that I
>upgraded was owned by Gallop in Princeton, NJ. They're the people that do
>the Gallop polls. Another one was owned by Virginia Military Institute in
>Lexington, Va.
>
> Those machines seem to last forever, I'll bet there's still some of them
>in use!
>
> Joe
>
>At 09:55 AM 9/22/98 -0400, you wrote:
>>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 - 14:23:10 BST