In 1966 we got 360/44 Serial 2 at the Purdue University's Laboratory for Agricultural Remote Sensing, which was the proving ground of K.S. Fu's work used subsequently in all of the earth satellite pattern recognition algorithms. I did my Master's evaluating the Karhunen-Loeve theorem in FORTRAN on it, and twice I set a pair of transistors in the floating point divide unit on fire; a new heat shield had to be added to that circuit board.
I also used a transistor radio by the console to listen to the 360/44 and it was very easy to hear all of the program transisions and I could tell in which loop I was running after a little while, and especially when I had gone into a never-ending loop as well! Barry Merrill Herbert W. "Barry" Merrill, PhD President-Programmer MXG Software Merrill Consultants 10717 Cromwell Drive Dallas, TX 75229 [email protected] http://www.mxg.com - FAQ has Most Answers [email protected] - invoices/PO/Payment [email protected] - technical tel: 214 351 1966 - expect slow reply, use email fax: 214 350 3694 - prefer email, still works -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier Sent: Monday, March 10, 2014 1:56 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories On 3/8/14, 6:49 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: > In > <b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.c > om>, > on 03/07/2014 > at 08:50 PM, "Blaicher, Christopher Y." <[email protected]> > said: > >> When working for a third party disk vendor I was in a computer room >> and there was an IBM CE working on a 360/45. > > No such animal; I might believe 360/40 or 370/145. But there WAS an IBM System/360 Model 44, optimized for scientific work: http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP2044.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
