Ibm 360 91
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From: Somewhere in the EU
Originally Posted by dzervit
On another note Kobster, got that resume updated?
What's that?
I'm trying to remember the last time I had one . . . . I think it was in 1983.
Originally Posted by Vader716
In 1965 my parents were 12
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Re: the 360 91, I think I remember reading that it clocked in at 10 MHz . . .
Actually, it's amazing when you think about it, what they were able to do (computing power wise) with the Apollo program considering what they had to work with in the way of computers.
(I'm even more amazed what Kelly Johnson and the kids at Lockheed came up with with slide-rules!!!! Can you imagine designing something like the SR-71 these days without a computer?)
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From: Mount Airy,MD
Originally Posted by kobiashi
It's not a cinema display monitor, it's an iMac. It's an entire computer, not just a monitor. In that one thin little thing is more computing power than the entire 360 91 that takes up the whole room.
I like seeing old pics like that seeing how far we have come.
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From: Rochester, MN
Any current IBMers here?
I've been with IBM (Rochester, MN) for almost 9 years, and luckily technology has advanced a bit past the 360! Are there any other current (or former) IBMers here on F150Online???
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Was it the System 3 that used the small cards? I worked for a public accounting firm that was the first in Abilene, TX with one of those systems. We did the first computerized tax returns in the area on it.
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Originally Posted by ChezHed
I've been with IBM (Rochester, MN) for almost 9 years, and luckily technology has advanced a bit past the 360! Are there any other current (or former) IBMers here on F150Online???
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Originally Posted by ChezHed
I've been with IBM (Rochester, MN) for almost 9 years, and luckily technology has advanced a bit past the 360! Are there any other current (or former) IBMers here on F150Online???
In the mid-80's I took a programming (COBOL) class at Tulsa Vo-Tech. They were still using an old IBM (maybe a System/3). First half of the class we used punch-cards... the second half we got to use the 3740 data-entry terminals and save our programs to 8" diskettes which could then be uploaded to the server via the "console" workstation. Of course, all of the data used by the programs was stored on large platters that had to be loaded by hand.
Now I'm building LPARs with tenths of a CPU and virtual I/O. Cool stuff!
