I was using a 1620 in 1970, and it was transistorized, not tubes. Had a
5-meg disk drive (14 inch variety, stacked platters) and punched cards.
"High speed" output was to punched cards, and if you wanted something you
could read, you had to run the cards through an accounting machine. The
really hot computer at the time was the IBM 1130 (unless you had access to
one of the 360 variants). The 1130 had assembler, FORTRAN, COBOL, and RPG.
Also had the privelege (?) of using an RCA 301, which had 4k of core memory,
six vacuum-column tape drives, and a 900-line/minute printer at about the
same time. The only thing available on it was assembler.
Sure punched a lot of cards on 026 keypunch machines back then. :-)
-jdr-
Renaud OLGIATI wrote:
>
> I remember working on a machine with 4 k memory; but this was a main-frame
> (IBM 1620) using vacum tubes; input and output by punched cards, and
> running Fortran II;
> Must have been in '68 or '69.
>
> This was the "obsolete" machine us students were allowed to play with; for
> serious computing, there was another mainframe, with a hard disk of, IIRC,
> 4 Mb capacity; memory was 96 kb, raised to 128 kb around 1970.
>
> And we were told we were priviledged, because our university had one of the
> most powerful computers in the education system at the time !
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ron the Frog, getting old on the banks of the Paraguay River.
>
> > Anybody else on this list old enough to remember when the "suits"
> > didn't run things, and games/software were ported to every single
> > platform, just because they could/it was neat? Circa '80's with
> > names like Tandy, Atari, Amiga, etc, etc,... ;-)
> >
> > --
> > /\
> > Dark><Lord
> > \/
>
> --
>
> Any sufficiently advanced technology
> is indistinguishable from magic.
> -- Arthur C. Clarke
>
> --- http://personales.conexion.com.py/~rolgiati ---
>
>
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