On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:28 pm, Bill Campbell wrote: > >"My first computer had its only memory on a drum".... > > Sounds like either a Bendix G-15 or something from Univac. >
IBM 850 (IIRC) Drum was run by a drive belt and if there was a power hit, sometimes the belt would snap. > One thing that amazed me was walking into the computer room at the > Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, to find not only a Burroughs > B-3800, the same type of main frame I managed for years, but an IBM > 026 keypunch still in use. This was in 1995! The last time I had to > use an 026 was in 1967 or thereabouts. I'll bet somewhere in the gummit they are still using them today. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bellaire, MI 11/05/03 09:12 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "No one is listening until you make a mistake." _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://smtp.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
