[wplug] OT: Down Memory Lane

Diana A. Clarion dclarion at fnordnet.net
Thu Oct 13 20:01:25 EDT 2005


And that was, indeed, ferrite core!

I fooled around a little on an IBM 1130, first time in college.  Just enough
to know that it was kind of fun.

DAC

On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 07:09:38PM -0400, Burt E Reany wrote:
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> IBM 1620 w/20K of core.
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> All this talk of age-showing got me to a little reminiscing, part of that
> involving the machines I've worked.  Just for the halibut, I'm wondering
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> was the first machine you folks worked.
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> I'll start:  HP 2116C, in 1970  (BASIC, FORTRAN, assembly language)
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