Stretch

From: Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com>
Date: Fri Oct 27 13:24:05 2000

Gene Ehrich <gehrich_at_tampabay.rr.com> wrote:
> While having a conversation with an old IBM buddy of mine we fondly
> remembered our days with the IBM 7030 (Stretch) computer. It was used to
> prototype the 360 before it came out. It was a real monster with only 8
> ever built (and sold). Does anybody else remember this monster?

Not from personal experience. But I have a web page about it:

        http://www.brouhaha.com/~eric/retrocomputing/ibm/stretch/

The Computer Museum History Center has one almost-complete 7030 system
from Livermore. They don't have much in the way of documentation.
If anyone has anything they can either donate to the museum or make
available for copying, please let me know.

In particular, it would be nice if they could get the theory-of-operation
manual (which apparently consisted of at least nine volumes) and a print
set.
Received on Fri Oct 27 2000 - 13:24:05 BST

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