On Feb 24, 2016, at 10:04 PM, Tom Marchant wrote:
On Wed, 24 Feb 2016 20:34:33 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote:
I was trolling for information on what the 360 indicated in the
System/360 (yes
the old one) and came across this video
Thanks for sharing this, Lizette.
The S/360 Model 30 had 1MB
of memory (I think) at the time.
I think the model 30 had a maximum of 64K when it was introduced.
I don't know if more was ever offered.
In 1970, I was working on a model 50 with 512K of memory.
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Tom In the early 70's I was working on two mod 50's with 512K over in
Germany for the US Army.
I do NOT know the exact lineage so this is at best IFFY info.
When France kicked the US Troops out out of France the Army had a
large 7070 in NANCY(???)
This was brought over in rail cars and the entire system was re
written in COBOL (except for specialized assembler DB in BDAM) on MFT-
II rel 21.7 (might have been 21.8) my memory is hazy here.
Dates are at best an approximation except for the time I was there
71-72.
We had two mod 30's as well but they were basically a tape to print
op and I am sure that they were 32K as in DOS you had to specify the
memory size in sysgen.
These systems were designed to run the entire US Army Material
Command (all supplies for the army and air force in Europe) but was
also meant to do it worldwide if/when the army would standardize on a
system.
I think (this happened after I left) that the cost for the computers
was out of sight and they (army) decided on DOS and VM.
If anyone wants to know anything specific I have email contact with
former work mates that still email each other and I can get an exact
sequence if anybody cares.
Ed
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