Re: Interested in UNIVAC 9000 Series (and IBM 360)

[Jon Elson]

On 11/19/2016 01:00 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:
     > From: William Degnan
     > for all that I have read about the actual use of the /20 that was not
     > what it was for. IBM used the /20's as a smart terminal and that kind
     > of thing. The thing in between the mainframe and something else
     > operating in a remote location, and so on.

When I was working at IBM Bermuda (as sort of an intern), they used a 360/20
as their main service bureau machine. (I'm pretty sure it was a /20, and not a
/30.) It had a card reader/punch, 4 (IIRC) tape drives, and a 1403 printer.


The /20 was very limited, and not a general purpose 360.  
There was also the 360/22 and 360/25 that were variants of 
the /30 model.  One was cheaper, one was a little faster.  
But, if they were doing mostly RPG work, then a /20 could do 
that.

Jon