On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 06:21:46PM +0100, David Goodenough wrote: > Now you are talking. My earliest experience of IBM was on a 360/67 at > Durham University (it was shared with Newcastle) and they ran MTS (Michigan > Terminal System). Most of the terminals were golfball typewriters, > although there were a few 2260s around. The machine had 2MB RAM and an > 11MB fixed head drum, and you could really feel when the total virtual > memory requirement went over 13M as it moved its paging out to 3330, then > to 2314, then in deparation to tape, and on one wonderful occasion to > punched card (it used 64 columns for data and 16 as a pattern which it > displayed on the console when it asked for the right cards back).
PUNCHED CARDS??!! Merciful $DEITY. BTW, anyone have any inside contacts at the University of Michigan that could possibly get MTS released into the world of open source? There's been some interest in running it under Hercules, but nobody can find out who owns the rights or who to contact to get it released.
