Alec, I love it ......that's great
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Jan 16, 2012, at 10:11 PM, Aled Hughes <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
