On 5/24/24 11:49, Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
The problem with this debate is that the definition of Personal
Computer is totally fluid
A friend worked with an IBM 4361 at UMSL in St. Louis. It was very
little used as the print and other unit record had a separate unit to
handle that traffic to the University of Missouri, Columbia's 370-145
(later upgraded a lot).
But the 4361 was his "PC" and was about ideal. He had the system, tape
drive, a few disks, and a 2741 and a couple of terminals to log on
with. Also a printer.
Ran VM/SP 5 as the OS, so you could do about anything you liked without
any impact on the system as far as creating a problem.
lots of toys if you knew where to get them. I don't think they had
anything but VM, or if they did wasn't complicated.
I think the 4361 was the best of all of those systems, because of the
integrated storage director.
It had plenty of channels if you needed to add anything, and usually
you'd have at least a tape drive on those.
All of the air cooled systems, 31, 41, 61 and 81 had integrated com
connections, so you could hook up a console, as well as a few other
"regular" consoles w/o adding a controller of any sort.
Thanks
Jim
