IBM 1130 Was: Re: Linux on S/370? Was: Re: printer socket

From: Ethan Dicks <erd_at_infinet.com>
Date: Wed Sep 23 12:52:29 1998

>
> At 23:08 22-09-98 -0400, you wrote:
> >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?])

Special sidewalls that are stiff enough to resist being folded over and
cut by the rim or rubbed thin by the consant compression/expansion of
rolling under the weight of the car and back out It's difficult to
explain without diagrams. The pressure monitoring system, BTW, is
required so that you, the driver, know that you have a flat and not to
drive on it too fast or too far.

> >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.

Wasn't there an 1103, too? I remember being confused while talking
computers with someone in college - he was thinking of an IBM 1103,
while I was thinking of a DEC LSI 11/03. Maybe _he_ was confused.

I never got to program it, but the EE department at OSU had an 1130 with
a couple of RK05-style disks in a forgotten lab when I was a college
freshman. ISTR it was short, but wide, being built into a desk.

-ethan
Received on Wed Sep 23 1998 - 12:52:29 BST