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 <li...@akphs.com> wrote: > 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 unlucky > bastard got to spend a day feeding them into the HMC (a PS/2). Less content > in all the boxes than one CD, never mind a DVD or flash drive. > > > > And woe betide the poor soul who got a bad floppy on #45 of 50! Which > happened. A lot. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
