On 3/9/23 17:33, Jon Elson via cctalk wrote: > On 3/9/23 15:51, Steve Lewis via cctalk wrote:
> Well, the IBM 709x was housed in 11 or more cabinets that were larger > than the largest home refrigerator. These cabinets were interconnected > by cables containing 100 coax cables and had one-foot square connectors > with 200 pins. The 7094 had 55,000 transistors on 11,000 circuit > cards. This was a TRULY huge computer system. The 7030 STRETCH was > built with similar technology, but way more of those cabinets. https://d3i71xaburhd42.cloudfront.net/d7fd7af8c26e659d712bf029d2287c919847e498/2-Figure2-1.png And that's not counting the stations or SBUs. 1970s. --Chuck
