IBM 1130?

From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_netwiz.net>
Date: Thu Feb 25 11:58:32 1999

>Upon the date 12:14 AM 2/25/99 -0800, Mike Ford said something like:
>>Just curiousity on my part, but does anybody know of a still running IBM
>>1130?
>>
>
>Yes, there is. We were just talking about 1130's in the first week of Feb
>on the list here.
>
>John Zabolitzky told us there is a working 1130 at the IBM Museum in
>Sindelfingen, Germany. That's the only one anybody has mentioned here so
>far. There's a couple of other non-working machines. One just got pulled
>out of Cornell Univ. by one our list colleagues (dang! It was only two or
>three hours drive from me.)

UC Riverside used to (maybe still) have one buried back in the warrens of
the physics dept, and it was actively used as late as the early 80's when
the maintaince contract was dropped and use restricted due to wear and tear
on the selectric based console. That was the machine I learned assembly
language on, and a fair amount of what makes a computer tick.

The 1130 seems to me an almost ideal target for preservation, it is desk
sized, a fairly powerfull system, and a significant milestone in computer
technology (first removable disc cartridges).

While I am strolling down memory lane, what about some Westinghouse 1600's
or GE 550 computers?
Received on Thu Feb 25 1999 - 11:58:32 GMT