I was aware of the hardware on the machines, since my late father was a FE on them. Didn't really know anything about the opsys or programming languages. So the history is very interesting
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Jul 22, 2012, at 8:37 AM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In <[email protected]>, on > 07/21/2012 > at 12:13 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> said: > >> I wasnt sure if the 1108 had come from RCA or Buroughs > > The 1108 dates back to the old Remington-Rand or Sperry Rand, not to > the RCA EDP acquisition. It's possible that Unisys picked up the RCA > Spectra 70, but that's a very different series. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
