My Dad (now long since retired) worked with 1904βs and then 29xx and 39xx.
(He also had IBM kit in the end β 3090 β but that isnβt really how I got into IBM.) π I think there was / is a 1904 in the Science Museum in London. Cheers, Martin From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Steve Thompson <ste...@wkyr.net> Date: Monday, 26 February 2024 at 22:02 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Signing off I had to re-read that line "first started on an ICL 1904" a few times before I my brain realized that was a model number and not a year. Blue skies and tail winds. Enjoy your next set of activities. Regards, Steve Thompson On 2/26/2024 2:51 PM, Sean Gleann wrote: > This list has been a great source of ideas and information, although I've > never really been a 'contributor' here, but more of a 'lurker'. Whenever > I've seen a thread that I might be able to respond to, someone else gets in > first with a response very similar to the one that I thought of. > > So, I hope you won't mind me speaking up now to say that it's time for this > tired old mainframer to toddle off into the sunset... after 50 years of > working with mainframe systems, I feel it's time to hang up my keyboard and > call it a day. > > I first started on an ICL 1904 - punched cards, paper tape, core memory, > 60MB disks, GEORGE II - but quickly saw the light and moved to another > employer that used a 360/30 roughly 8 years after the series was first > marketed. Since then, aside from a brief entanglement with a Burroughs > B4700, it's been IBM all the way. > > I have to say that it's (mostly) been a lot of fun. From one aspect, I've > never really worked a day in my life. Instead, I've been paid a lot of > money to play on other people's expensive toys. > > Here's wishing all of you good luck and good fortune for the future. I'll > be thinking about doing some travelling - haven't made it to South America > or Africa yet. > > Regards > Sean o'bhaile na Gleann > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN -- Regards, Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless otherwise stated above: IBM United Kingdom Limited Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
