Re 3420s: In 2005 or so, I was at IBM Sterling Forest for something, and was
shown a floor full of old drives: 7-track, 3420s, etc.
Anyone know if it's still there?
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W dniu 14.08.2020 o 00:48, Jesse 1 Robinson pisze:
At one shop, before we moved to cartridge, we had 3420s that were so 'obsolete'
that spare parts became prohibitively expensive. On more than one occasion, our
loyal CE team carved replacement parts out of wood (!) to extend the lifespan
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3420? Wasn't that well and truly obsolete?
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We had 2 9370's that I recall @ the Boeing Helicopters site in Philly, both
running VSE IIRC, one in the computer room for a DOD project and one black box
project neither were network connected - the engineers and admins (SYSPROGS)
had to carry updates into the computer room
Right with a horizontal mount. I think they were used as I/O processors in
later models of the 3090's.
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neither were network connected - the engineers and admins (SYSPROGS) had to
carry updates into the
Yup, ran VM/SP R6 on a 9375 at Swift Energy back in the day. Nice box.
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We had 2 9370's that I recall @ the Boeing Helicopters site in Philly, both
running VSE IIRC, one in the computer room for a DOD project and one black box
project neither were network connected - the engineers and admins (SYSPROGS)
had to carry updates into the computer room, but they were on
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Gabe Goldberg reminds me that it wasn't really a rack-mount: it was
sorta/maybe rack-sized, and
Gabe Goldberg reminds me that it wasn't really a rack-mount: it was sorta/maybe
rack-sized, and air-cooled, of course. A big shift from 43xx family, anyway:
vertical instead of wide.
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I was a Marketing Rep at the time Akers & Co were so afraid of DEC and SUN
that we *had* to sell these things in order to meet quota. System/36 also
counted as I recall. I worked with large commercial clients who didn't want
them or DEC/SUN either for that matter.
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We bought, one big mistake. Ran out of grunt in a year. IBM also talked us
into the "superior" token ring. $1000 token ring cards. Aargh.
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> Sorry, I was thinking about the 3370... The 9370 was a
I remember the IBM marketing team calling it the "VAX Killer". Our company
bought the VAX instead of the 9370.
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I remember that as an SE, the configurator used to order one was an utter
disaster.It was a gigantic steaming pile of APL code.
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George Rodriguez wrote:
>Sorry, I was thinking about the 3370... The 9370 was a small computer
>system th
I remember that as an SE, the configurator used to order one was an utter
disaster.It was a gigantic steaming pile of APL code.
On Tue, Aug 11, 2020 at 3:05 PM Phil Smith III wrote:
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> >Sorry, I was thinking about the 3370... The 9370 was a small computer
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George Rodriguez wrote:
>Sorry, I was thinking about the 3370... The 9370 was a small computer
>system that we used in the Engineering department.
Right, it was the early rack-mount 370 from IBM (1988 or so). We had one, and
microcode updates came as BOXES of floppies, which meant some
Sorry, I was thinking about the 3370... The 9370 was a small computer
system that we used in the Engineering department.
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If you do, this will give you flashbacks:
Boeing 747s receive critical software updates over 3.5" floppy disks
https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/10/boeing_747_floppy_drive_updates_walkthrough/
Interesting article, even if it is El Reg.
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