On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 05:54:16PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 04:23:57PM -0500, David Boyes wrote: > >> > >> IBM 360/75 with 2311s? 8-) > > > > Powered up? > > Well, only on request. That thing EATS power. > > > Under hardware maintenance (the drives, > > not the CPC)? > > Well, if you count me as maintenance personnel,,,, > > > Has a business purpose? > > Well, it *used* to launch NASA spacecraft, until 1984 -- it was replaced by > a 3090E. As to now, it's a great teaching tool about 370 architecture.
I'll accept all three, although only one is necessary. That's one. Any other takers? I wonder if it's one of the two 75s Goddard used for orbit computation? I was part of the effort that replaced them in 83 with two NAS (Itel) 8040s. That's where this whole curator thing came from. The Data Center Manager told me he was conducting his usual tour, in this case a group of Japanese dignitaries, when one of them asked him, "So you're the curator of this museum?" This museum was what took over if Houston was hit by a hurricane. I'm so glad I wasn't there at the time because I'm sure I would have totally cracked up. My first mainframe had two (Marshall) 2311s. And 16 KB of core. But it was a Model 22, not as old as a 75. -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
