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LUVMBDiesels · #27 03-09-2010, 06:29 AM

Oh man this brings back memories!

I have worked on systems ranging from Burroughs (remember THEM?) which BOOTED from cassette tape, IBM 370 systems - 32 9 track tape drives, four 3380 disk arrays, two card readers, one card punch and two printers. This machine had 32k online RAM! We did things like USPS address database merge/purge jobs - they would run for hours! The cool thing was the two buttons on the console [STOP] and [START] if we wanted to take a break, we would hit [STOP] and the system would. when we got back just hit [START] and it would resume...

I moved from there to things like AT&T 3B's, DEC P19(I think) and then back to IBM for their SYSTEM-36/38 'Mini' computers.

Anybody remember 3278 terminals? 3174 Cluster Controllers? How about 7171 FEPs?

Amazing how far we have come - Now my Palm Pre has more computing power than my first mainframe and the laptop I just retired!