On Wed, Jul 26, 2017 at 2:48 PM, Noel Chiappa via cctalk < [email protected]> wrote:
> > There's a picture of an artist's impression of the 645 here: > > http://www.multicians.org/645artist.html > > Oddly enough, that painting was on the wall right outside my office in Tech > Sq! > > Now _that_ is a mainframe! :-) > > The image caption refers to GIOCs; they where the I/O controllers, later known as IOMs. According to multicians.org, Ford Motor Company had 4 systems, with a total of 19 CPUs, 48 megawords of memory, 10 FNPs (serial line controllers), 76 disk drives, 30 tape drives, 5 printers. Probably bigger the the artist's conception. -- Charles
