Upon the date 03:58 AM 10/14/99 -0400, Innfogra_at_aol.com said something like:
>In a message dated 10/13/99 11:05:47 PM Pacific Daylight Time,
>mcquiggi_at_sfu.ca writes:
>
>> There's one in Paul Pierce's collection in Portland Oregon.
>> No, he won't part with it, I've already asked!!
>>
>I learned Fortran on that very machine in Paul Pierce's collection. When
>Clatsop Community College surplused it out in 1989 (after having it nearly 20
>years) he outbid me in the sealed bid sale.
>
>It is going to be hard to find a 1130. You might try remote, poor community
>colleges. It was really designed as an engineering machine and pushed into
>business applications.
I feel you're right in your assessment of 1130 availability Paxton. These
machines were long obsolete 15 or more years ago and back then nobody felt
like keeping a big old useless thing around after moving up to more modern
machine(s). Except of course those who needed to keep it on hand to support
customers for which they'd written 1130 software apps or those who had an
ancient but important database to maintain.
The 1130 was my very first contact with a computer back in 'Spring of '72.
Like Sgt. McQuiggan and one or two others who mentioned it here, I also
learned Fortran on that model which was the very first computer installed
at our Jamestown Community College. Jeez, if I only knew back then how
computers would be placed in our everyday lives, I would have put a much
stronger focus on learning everything possible about it and any associated
software. But I was a 19-year-old kid and had no sense of what the future
would hold so took the course because it was required for my degree. For
that matter, relative to computers in general, I think very _few_ folks in
'72 had in mind how they would become so pervasive in our lives so soon as
they have. I still have my 1130 Fortran IV 1966 textbook :)
I'd really like to get an 1130 myself and indeed just missed one from out
East of me at Cornell U. last year. One of our fellow list members got it :)
Regards, Chris
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Received on Thu Oct 14 1999 - 08:49:26 BST