First: Happy retirement to Sean!
Regarding ICL 19xx - I bet the last machine from that family was
switched off in Poland, 2006 (year, not model).
However it was polish product called ODRA.
To clarify, ODRA (name of the river) was a name of several completely
different machines. This knowledge is very uncommon. However "that ODRA"
was under ICT (then ICL) license - bought together with GEORGE III
operating system.
It was the most popular type of computers in Poland late 60's and 70's.
Unfortunately I have never worked on Odra, however I saw it working in
1994, touched guts, etc. :-)
--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland
W dniu 27.02.2024 o 10:46, Martin Packer pisze:
My Dad (now long since retired) worked with 1904’s and then 29xx and 39xx.
(He also had IBM kit in the end – 3090 – but that isn’t really how I got into
IBM.) 😊
I think there was / is a 1904 in the Science Museum in London.
Cheers, Martin
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List<[email protected]> on behalf of Steve
Thompson<[email protected]>
Date: Monday, 26 February 2024 at 22:02
To:[email protected] <[email protected]>
Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Signing off
I had to re-read that line "first started on an ICL 1904" a few
times before I my brain realized that was a model number and not
a year.
Blue skies and tail winds.
Enjoy your next set of activities.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
On 2/26/2024 2:51 PM, Sean Gleann wrote:
This list has been a great source of ideas and information, although I've
never really been a 'contributor' here, but more of a 'lurker'. Whenever
I've seen a thread that I might be able to respond to, someone else gets in
first with a response very similar to the one that I thought of.
So, I hope you won't mind me speaking up now to say that it's time for this
tired old mainframer to toddle off into the sunset... after 50 years of
working with mainframe systems, I feel it's time to hang up my keyboard and
call it a day.
I first started on an ICL 1904 - punched cards, paper tape, core memory,
60MB disks, GEORGE II - but quickly saw the light and moved to another
employer that used a 360/30 roughly 8 years after the series was first
marketed. Since then, aside from a brief entanglement with a Burroughs
B4700, it's been IBM all the way.
I have to say that it's (mostly) been a lot of fun. From one aspect, I've
never really worked a day in my life. Instead, I've been paid a lot of
money to play on other people's expensive toys.
Here's wishing all of you good luck and good fortune for the future. I'll
be thinking about doing some travelling - haven't made it to South America
or Africa yet.
Regards
Sean o'bhaile na Gleann
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