Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
In such a historical overview, you have to make a selection. Of course, there are other machines also to be considered mainframes, for example General Electric machines or machines in foreign countries, Europe or the Soviet Union. Some of them were very powerful and sophisticated and built in

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Ron Wells
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/610.html From: Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 05/06/2013 10:35 AM Subject:Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion List IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Ron Wells
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computer_hardware_in_Soviet_Bloc_countries From: Bernd Oppolzer bernd.oppol...@t-online.de To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 05/06/2013 10:35 AM Subject:Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes Sent by:IBM Mainframe Discussion

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Elardus Engelbrecht
Ron Wells wrote: http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/610.html Thanks. Very Interesting Article! ;-D I have ADDed this nice acronym in that article to my list of acronyms: CADET - Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try grin Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Ron Wells
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Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Ron Wells
interesting to see what other were up too... -- Email Disclaimer This E-mail contains confidential information belonging to the sender, which may be legally privileged information. This information is intended only for

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-06 Thread Bernd Oppolzer
West Germany: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telefunken: The mainframe computer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mainframe_computer TR 4 was developed at Telefunken in Backnang http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backnang, and the TR 440 model was developed at Telefunken in Konstanz

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-05 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 016701ce491b$66732590$335970b0$@mxg.com, on 05/04/2013 at 06:02 PM, Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com said: But they skipped the 610, A bit underpowered to be considered a mainframe. Wasn't it contemporaneous with the much faster 704? -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-04 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:13:56 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: On 2013-05-03 18:24:07 Phil Smith wrote: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html I didn't realize that Eniac was that big... 49-ft high cabinets! Wow! And: Also, in a backward step

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-04 Thread Scott Ford
Yeah , my dad worked at Univac later Unisys and talked about them, in the days of tubes ..etc Scott ford www.identityforge.com from my IPAD 'Infinite wisdom through infinite means' On May 3, 2013, at 10:13 PM, J. Leslie Turriff jlturr...@centurytel.net wrote: On 2013-05-03 18:24:07 Phil

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-04 Thread Joel C. Ewing
On 05/04/2013 11:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:13:56 -0500, J. Leslie Turriff wrote: On 2013-05-03 18:24:07 Phil Smith wrote: http://www.tomshardware.com/picturestory/508-mainframe-computer-history.html I didn't realize that Eniac was that big... 49-ft high

Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes

2013-05-04 Thread Barry Merrill
Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 1:57 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: OE Historical article re: Mainframes On 05/04/2013 11:36 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: On Fri, 3 May 2013 21:13:56