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. > -- Cheers John. Join the "Linux Support by Small Businesses" list at http://mail.computerdatasafe.com.au/mailman/listinfo/lssb
