At 23:08 22-09-98 -0400, you wrote:
>> 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.
Oh no you won't ;) I'll get a set of those new Michelin Zero Pressure
tires (ones which the TV ad shows a 3/4" hole being drilled in the sidewall
and the car driving away; 55 MPH for 50 miles... [howzat work anyway?])
>
>> 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).
You must have been tired at 23:08 when you wrote this :) It's an IBM 1130.
Since the 1130 is related to the 1800, I would like to lookup info on the
1800 machine. Any online leads?
--Chris
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Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 08:32:04 BST