On 10/4/25 15:22, Jim Davis via cctalk wrote:
It's like three mother-in-laws moving in. What was the power consumption on a minimal 370? Even a 360 would almost require another transformer at the poll . You could heat your house.
The 370/145 had a power draw of about 2KW, but must have had an INSANELY bad power factor due to the lightly-loaded huge motor in the motor-generator set. There was a 370/115 at the bottom of the hierarchy, I think it had an 8-bit data path, so power consumption would have been less.
Really, the power draw is not that huge, but the power factor is a huge problem. Of course, for my friend, he would have had to come up with a disk controller, tape controller, unit record controller and comms controller. Totally insane to think he'd get that running in a spare bedroom!
Jon
