Subj : Re: FidoNet Technical Standards Committe
To   : Fabio Bizzi
From : Kurt Weiske
Date : Wed Mar 08 2023 06:44 am

-=> Fabio Bizzi wrote to Vincent Coen <=-

 FB> But IMHO, as I wrote to Ward, Before IBM 360 it's hard to find a "real"
 FB> mainframe, moreover the IBM AS/400 and it's predecessors System 36,
 FB> AS/38 etc. are all dipartimentals. You're right on 370 ad Amdahl, I
 FB> forgot them. :D

Dipartmentals is a new term to me. We called S/36, S/38 and AS/400es
Midrange computers back when I was working on them.

The Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA has a working IBM 1401
that they IPL for visitors - https://computerhistory.org/exhibits/ibm1401/

My son was 13 when he got to watch it and realized how much has changed
by counting how many people it took to run the thing.




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