During my last year in high school in Kensington, Maryland in 1969 an
IBM 1103 was installed with about twenty terminals for student use. I
never used the 1103 although I 'majored' in data processing which
included IBM EAM (Electronic Accounting Machine) plug board wiring and
operation (sorting, collating, keypunching, verifying, gang punching
printing etc. etc. by the way, if anybody has an old plug board
available for sale or trade I would be most grateful). I LOVED the old
punch card gear. It was fun wiring plug boards.
Marty
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Subject: Re: IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socke
Author: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu at internet
Date: 9/22/98 11:10 PM
> 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
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