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
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA
Member of Antique Wireless Association
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Received on Tue Sep 22 1998 - 08:55:10 BST