[Novalug] [OT] holy hair dryer
Beartooth
beartooth@Beartooth.Info
Fri Jun 26 11:44:32 EDT 2015
On Thu, 25 Jun 2015, James Ewing Cottrell III via Novalug wrote:
>> Tubes?? There were PCs before the transistor??
>>
>
> Computers running on Tubes aren't as old as you might think. I went to UMD
> from 72 thru 76, and while I was there, we still had some IBMs (the model
> number matched the regexp "70?9?4?" (or maybe not)) that still ran on tubes.
> I never saw them; I ran on the "modern" Univac 1100 series, a one's
> complement, 2**18 36-bit word with 6-bit FIELDATA (with a mod that allowed 4
> x 9-bit ASCII (which was rarely used)) characters, fed by punched card batch
> jobs on time shared with 110 baud (with TWO Stop Bits) ASR 33 Teletypes and
> later, a few "glass TTYs" locked away in the Graduate Labs and the Systems
> Staff, where I worked.
>
> Come to think of it...that WAS awhile back. Still, it wasn't the 40s, 50s, or
> 60s.
When I was in college in the Fifties, there was a
computer on campus -- and it filled a building, afaik, between
Physics and Math.
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