On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, 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).

What a wonderful paper trail!!


>
> There were I think a total of about 100 terminals on the whole system,
> Durham was run through some 1130s which also acted as RJE stations.
>

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Cheers
John.

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