Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
Once upon a time, I spent many a long workday hauling tapes to 3420
tape drives (the big ones, with the 5-foot tall vacuum columns--
my exercise was the
David Goodenough wrote:
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
Yes.
Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduc
> Yeah. IBM360/65 in about 1966.
> But that was my *third* machine.
> Before that, an IBM 1620 -- the one that stored its addition
> tables and multiplication tables in RAM and did its
> arithmetic by table lookup.
This machine was (IIRC) called the CADET.
Can't Add, Doesn't Even Try.
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 09:32:41PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> hendrik writes:
> > Before that, an IBM 1620...
>
> Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it
> but submit FORTRAN decks, though.
It was actually a Bendix G15d I started on -- the machine with a
magn
Russell L. Harris wrote:
Most of the people who complain loudest about the difficulties of
printing in Linux never had to depend upon an IBM line printer, the
input to which was in the form of 80-column punched cards. ;-) And most
of them never knew the utter rapture of owing your very own Epson
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:16:26PM -0700, Jeff wrote:
> Having spent much of my life talking to these big-iron beasts, I did a
> bit of a double-take. Actually, though, the correct name for the
> mainframe series was IBM *System*/360.
I actually never worked on a 360. My University had an S/3
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> hendrik writes:
>> Before that, an IBM 1620...
>
> Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it
> but submit FORTRAN decks, though.
>
> --
> John Hasler
Most of the people who complain loudest about the difficulties of
prin
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
Having spent much of my life talking to these big-iron beasts, I did a
bit of a double-take. Actually, though, the correct name for the
mainframe series
hendrik writes:
> Before that, an IBM 1620...
Someone else who started out on a 1620. I never got to do anything with it
but submit FORTRAN decks, though.
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On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 08:41:57AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
>
> >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
> >and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
> >
> >
> Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction
>
Simon wrote:
Wulfmann,
No, not the mainframe :)
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73
Yeah... I think the one I learned on was a little larger than that...
like "fill the air-conditioned room wi
Wulfmann,
No, not the mainframe :)
http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73
On 7/25/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
> Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that
Wulfy wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that
subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old...
Relax. You're not! 1967 on an English Electric 4-50 (derived from the
RCA
Raquel Rice wrote:
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that
subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
Count me in! My first programming was on an
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
>
> >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that
> >subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
> >
> >
> Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an
>
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Carl Fink wrote:
> >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
> >and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
>
> Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction
> to Computing" class,
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction
to Computing" class, back in 1976. I was also taking a 'Musical
Computer' cla
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 14:26 +0800, Ye Fei escribió:
> Sorry, I think it is a laptop, but it seems not a laptop.
> Forget that link which is for laptop.
> Sorry for misleading.
> YF
> On 2006-07-25, Ye Fei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > Hi,
> > maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com
Sorry, I think it is a laptop, but it seems not a laptop.
Forget that link which is for laptop.
Sorry for misleading.
YF
On 2006-07-25, Ye Fei ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi,
> maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html
> to find whether there is your ibm model.
> Gook luck
> yf
Carl Fink wrote:
Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old...
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Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line
and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
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Hi,
maybe you can check http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/ibm.html
to find whether there is your ibm model.
Gook luck
yf
On 2006-07-25, Simon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Hi There,
>
> Can anyone verify if Debian will run on a IBM xSeries 360? The specs
> for this server are:
>
> - 4 x Intel Xeon P
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