On Sep 23, 2022, at 1:35 PM, Chuck Guzis <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 9/23/22 09:53, Paul Koning wrote:
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>> Those are good examples, but is it "many" or just those two and maybe one or
>> two more? For example, Burroughs and IBM mainframes were both very much
>> "lights and switches" control panel type machines. For that matter, so were
>> the other CDC products; the 6000 series was a bit of an outlier I think.
>
> How many supercomputers were there in the 1960s? I suppose you could
> count the 360/195 as a ridiculous example of the opposite approach, but
> eventually, even IBM saw the light.
>
> --Chuck
Yes, I was thinking "mainframes" not limited to "supercomputers". Then again,
from what I remember of the one starring in "War Games", the Connection Machine
had oodles of lights.
paul
