I remember that building well! My only visit there was at 2 am
though! I had a 6250bpi GCR mag tape and my drive only did 1600, so a
friend who worked there took it from me and converted it.
I thought I would be interrogated by the guard, but apparently
small-hours deliveries were commonplace!
Funny though, now my friend denies it was him :-)
cheers,
Nigel
On 2024-04-10 09:35, Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I remember some early days of my computing years. I visited IBM at Eglinton
E. & Don Mills Rd., its sprawling complex. I knew a project manager from
IBM when he worked at their new facility in Vaughan. I don’t think I truly
realized the seminal work done at IBM then(60's&70's).
Murray 😊
On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM Paul Berger via cctalk <
[email protected]> wrote:
On 2024-04-10 2:21 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
On 4/9/24 22:03, ben via cctalk wrote:
On 2024-04-09 8:53 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote:
I had not realized the IBM 360 was 60 yrs. old this month. I worked on
such
a computer in the late 60s in Toronto. What one could do with 8 Kbytes
of
ram was remarkable!
Happy computing
Murray 🙂
Real time sharing, not a 16K PDP 8?
What model of a 360? 8K sounds a lot like a Model 20, which the purists
may not consider to be a "real" member of the family.
--Chuck
The IBM Don Mills plant in Toronto built model 20s. I knew guys who
bought their houses with the overtime working on them. They had
accumulated a lot of engineering changes that had not been cut into
production, so they would be assembled and then there where teams that
would apply the engineering changes before the systems where shipped.
Paul.
--
Nigel Johnson, MSc., MIEEE, MCSE VE3ID/G4AJQ/VA3MCU
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