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IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 763
I always understood it more as an issue of the idea of a 'business' computer and a 'scientific' computer. i.e. the computers were so specialized for one purpose that they generally couldn't do...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 764
Philip Nasadowski Yes, that was true. Certainly any applications could run. But the CPUs were far slower in...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 765
The computer might do the job X times faster than the sorter, but if a computer minute cost more than X sorter minutes pre-sorting was...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 766
Eric Sosman Well, your formula of course is right. But I am surprised that the incremental cost of CPU time to pre-sort an...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 767
John R. Levine basically leases were somewhat like cellphone billing ... basic plan and possibly a lot for overages ... based on cpu meter. the meter ran while the processor wasn't...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 768
Anne & Lynn Wheeler I presume in the early days of computing the hardware was so incredibly expensive compared to programmer wages that software cost...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 769
Charlie Gibbs Easy and hard are relative and depend on the overall context. For example, there may be math formula...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 770
This is true only if you can store the table in core. And somebody had to key in that table somehow. If you're talking about the 50s or earlier, companies did not have...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 772
The area I grew up in wasn't that remote. As for those glbutt canning jars: My mother, who is over...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 773
Some people tend to forget that economics is a social 'science', and therefore must pay exceedingly close attention to what they measure, how and why. GNP-GDP are closely related measures of compound...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 774
You have a farm. You plant a crop. You are a sitting duck for some smart gent to make money from by...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 775
On Friday, in article "Derek Lyons" Pay packets were *very* specialized envelopes. For a start, they were...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 776
Yes things were simpler back then but getting more and more complex. Beginning in the 1930s, employers had to...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 777
I seem to recall that even in the 1920s IBM was a very fast growing company. Certainly design improvements to their machines...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 778
Allan Olley Year Gross Income in millions 1919 9 1920 14 1921 9 1926 14 1930 19 1935 22 1936 25 1937 31 1938 34 1942 86 1943 131 1948 156 1951 335...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 779
You have a point, still the number of employees from 1920 to 1929 is double (2,731 to 5,999) and actual net earnings more than tripled...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 780
btw ... has anybody actually seen a hardcopy? they had a photographer come out for a photoshoot ... but pictures don't show up in the online version. note...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 781
computer ads is a spoof of them losing five billion dollars. Here is the text: "What good would your Gateway 2000...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 782
ibm would frequently get the science and engineering of manufactoring production extremely optimized (lots of studies of the...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 783
they had 360-67 with dat ... and cp67 for time-sharing. melinda gives some of the history i've commented before that the 360-67 dat & time-sharing was actually more succesful than possibly...
IBMWatson autobiographythoughts on 784
Well...I can't speak for RCA broadcast transmitters, but when my PPOE bought a new GE television transmitter in 1965 it came in crates, we (the...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 785
Paul' "I get confused with the old core memory descriptions of memory being WORDS rather than bytes. For example: 64K (36...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 786
You are, of course, technically correct, and I note that you used "implies" so you obviously know this. But as a side comment for the OP, the term "core" became rather synonomis with...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 787
I-O was relatively faster ... i've claimed that ckd (count-key-data) disk was trading off relatively abundant i-o capacity against relatively scarce and expensive real memory. indexes for files and...
Machine ReUse was How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory
Peter Flbutt In rare instances, hardware itself was recycled, but it generally had little value because subsequent technology was so much better. An exception of hardware recycling is using the...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 789
Anne & Lynn Wheeler' wrote, in part: "original 360 were 30, 40, 50, 60, 62, & 70. 60, 62 & 70 were going to have one mic core store (with one...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 790
It didn't even have load register. The20 was an interesting attempt at a low-cost low-end...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 791
For many years, I have maintained that one should not trust anything1 one reads on anyone's web-site. I realize that a Wikipedia supposedly has the...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 793
First... how big is your byte? I've worked on architectures where the "byte" was defined as six bits. I've heard of, but never used myself, others where it was nine...
How much RAM is 64K 36bit words of Core Memory 794
On the PDP-10, the choices were: 1-bit bytes = 36 bytes per word. 2-bit bytes...
PDP11 UNIXRT ldp" files
I wonder ... is UNIX-RT still alive? Or is someone else just using data formats close enough to fool the popular...
Space War!...and the PDP1 coming to the IFarchive soon
originally wrote for the 2005 IF-Comp, but decided to just upload to the regular IF...
Space War!...and the PDP1 coming to the IFarchive soon
see: unfortunately, they don't give the year when the computer museum took posession of it (appears to...
Hybrid Computertab machine data centers
In a library, I found a late 1950s IBM proposal to install a 705-III computer system. Included with the proposal was proposed system operation which included considerable support work...
Hybrid Computertab machine data centers 799
In the late 1970's and early 1980's I used a UNIVAC 90-60 in both batch and time-sharing modes. The student keypunch room where I punched most of...
Hybrid Computertab machine data centers 800
rpl Plenty of low-end S-360s didn't have spooling. Spooling required a separate region which required more core memory. Low-end S-360 shops didn't have any 'system programmers'--there just...
Hybrid Computertab machine data centers 801
rpl DOS-VS is a different operating system than plain DOS. DOS was for System-360, DOS-VSE was for S-370 and later machines. The...
wheeler scheduler and hpo
reply to recent email question about wheeler scheduler and "HPO" early "wheeler scheduler" that i did as undergraduate ... went into cp67 ... and then dropped...
Jack Kilby dead 803
there were frequently huge yield-volume issues ... i've observed some number of product sectors that had succesful vendors ... that were essentially ignored because of yield-volume and-or margin issues...
Jack Kilby dead 804
That's all :-) My original Pentel .5 mm was purchased around 1977. I thought I'd lost it around 1987 and...
Another Unix Victim
It finally happened. I acquired a nice little Alpha box (DEC 3000-700) last year that I had been wanting to play...
Seeking information about EACA, the manufacturer of a TRS80 Model 1 clone
Hi, I've developed a site for a TRS-80 clone site (the System 80) at research into this machine. I've been expanding the site recently and I'm very keen on...
who invented CONFIGSYS 807
Kelli Halliburton I did not think it was good practice to copy someone's whole post, and...
who invented CONFIGSYS 808
My only comment is the lack of knowledge about who-when and where. Things are slightly backwards but I don't want to go through...
who invented CONFIGSYS 809
Perhaps, and it makes equal sense. However, perhaps not all parts of DEC were on the same page. I...
who invented CONFIGSYS 810
The earliest reference to this expansion I've seen comes from around the time of version 5 of the PDP-10 monitor, as a (re)naming. Your end...
RPG on the mainframewhy never popular 811
A good point. IBM's GSD and DPD were like two separate nations. In my experience, the mainframe shops using RPG were usually sites which began with System...
RPG on the mainframewhy never popular 812
There was a real requirement for those columns and appropriate placement. All of your paychecks were produced based on somebody being able to do this correctly. All businesses who pay people depend...
RPG on the mainframewhy never popular 813
The DOS and OS-360 (I think you meant that and not "OS370") implementations of RPG -- and the other languages -- were provided without charge. For that matter, IBM didn't even bother...
RPG on the mainframewhy never popular 814
learning Well, that depends on the type of work to be done. My background was in a...
groups Was Another OS390 to zOS 1.4 migration
at one point in the early 80s ... there were periodic claims that for some months, i was in some way responsible for 20 to 30 percent of all...
HLA Adventure conversion project
Now that I've got HLA Adventure working on Windows, Linux and now the Macintosh (via...
HLA Adventure conversion project
With an Inform game there is no need to 'port' it to different systems. ZCode is platform independant. An Inform game can be played on any platform for which a...
Why is this newsgroup so prone to
Pete Fenelon I thought everybody had figured out by now that this is a reasonably...
IBM 5100 luggable computer with APL
Tim Shoppa' wrote, in part: I was using HP 9830's from about that time for data logging etc. through HPIB bus, but those are...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 820
4341 w-vm was in the same market segment and time-frame as vax ... and...
IBM's mini computerslack thereof 821
there was the 1800 and system-7 in the instrumentation world. prior to the ibm-pc, the...
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