Scott One of my friends from the 'old' days acquired a 1401 when it was decommissioned. He installed it in his garage. His wife only found out about it when she saw the electric bill! Wonderful machine, you could almost watch the data going around!
I was 'promoted' to a 5 tape system - still on an 8K 1401. We used to run a tape sort on night-shift. Took at least an hour, sometimes three hours at month end. We used to go outside and play cricket (not yet popular in the US - give it time, I'm working on it) in the car park (parking lot) while this sort went on. I rigged an alarm that was triggered when a message came to the console. This alarm would be loud enough to be heard during any howzats as we left a window open, shock, horror! 'Nostalgia ain't what it used to be'. ALH -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 9:44 pm Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit Alec, Knew a guy 15 yrs a go made a lot of money still writing auto coder .... Sent from my iPad cott Ford enior Systems Engineer ww.identityforge.com On Jan 16, 2012, at 9:17 PM, Aled Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > I 'started' my life on a 1401, with 8K memory at a major UK bank. Driving a 419 MICR cheque (check) sorter, a tape deck, and a printer. Noisy? What? -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ford <[email protected]> To: IBM-MAIN <[email protected]> Sent: Mon, Jan 16, 2012 7:01 pm Subject: Re: IBM researchers make 12-atom magnetic memory bit Rick, Your an old timer ..... Sent from my iPad cott Ford enior Systems Engineer ww.identityforge.com On Jan 16, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Rick Fochtman <[email protected]> wrote: > Or an 8k 1620 ??? Rick -------------------------------------------------------------------- On 1/15/2012 6:28 PM, Scott Ford wrote: > Wow, 16k. On a 360/20. .....man > > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Jan 15, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Ed Finnell<[email protected]> wrote: > >> Howz about 32K on an SS80? Some not so good... >> >> >> In a message dated 1/15/2012 11:19:32 A.M. Central Standard Time, >> [email protected] writes: >> >> Geez..8mb on a 4381. Brings back a bunch of memories, real good ones >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- or IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, end email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
