IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socket (Off topic)

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Tue Sep 22 22:08:00 1998

> Yeah man! Where???????!!!!!!! I'll rent a tent and camp out at the place
> which has one until either they get tired of it or that Y2K thing obsoletes
> it. W. Donzelli would be camping right next to me I think.

No, I will be letting the air of your car's tires.

> Seriously, that would be, in my opinion, the most excellent find! As I
> mentioned, I have never heard of any around these days. They were, I
> believe, not the typical mainline computers one would hear of in business
> like the S/360's and S/370's. Weren't they more used in R&D and academia
> because of their ability to handle number crunching not so much as
> databases like a business application would?

I know little about 1103s, but they were indeed built for number crunching
for people that could not afford a big S/360. The 1103 is related to the
1800, used for process control (leading to the S/7).

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Tue Sep 22 1998 - 22:08:00 BST