In <[email protected]>, on 03/28/2014
at 03:27 PM, Gabe Goldberg <[email protected]> said:
> * Most liked/disliked
I liked the IBM 7070, which had 99 index registers. I had lust in my
heart for the CDC 3600, a beautiful machine for its day. I hated the
UNIVAC 1005, which had a truly bizarre addressing scheme. The Itel
disk drives and Potter tape drives were loathsome. Modems installed
(incorrectly) by the telephone company as black boxes.
> * Most significant technology breakthrough
These things are subjective, but I'm proud of the program I wrote to
translate assembler code for the UNIVAC 1005 to DOS/360 Assembler.
> * You developed/supported it
Not solo, but I was an OS develper for the OS on the RCA 3301 and for
BNX on the IBM 7094. Lot's of other stuff.
> * You threw it away and now can't believe you didn't keep it
Manuals for the IBM 650; had I but known that bitsavers was coming,
...
> * You're glad it's gone, never want to see one again (1052, 6670,
> 2250, etc.)
IBM 650, GTE IS/7800 display system[1], Itel disk drives, Portacomm
terminal[2], Potter tape drives, UNIVAC 1005
> * You have the emotional/physical scars
Itel disk drives, monopoly telephone companies, Potter tape drives
>I saw a TI Silent 700
While I certainly griped about the noisy[3] 700, it was certainly
better than the Portacomm.
[1] Nominally compatible with IBM 3272/3277
[2] 40 lbs, 75 baud
[3] It wasn't all that silent
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