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The Case of the Bashful Computer
SOLVED! But perhaps not completely... As may be remembered, I had previously enquired about the...
On the 370165 and the 36085
As noted in my post "The Case of the Bashful Computer", I found that the IBM System-360 Model 85 computer had the same type of double projection console as was found on the...
On the 370165 and the 36085 4010
not exactly 360-85 info (which I have no direct info) along the way there was the 3031 and 3032 (in addition to the 3033). the 303x line was differentiated by...
On the 370165 and the 36085 4011
KR Williams ECL. Unless I'm mistaken there was no other way to get high speed...
On the 370165 and the 36085 4012
Depends on what you mean by "high speed". The 158-168 weren't all that high speed. Yes, I used MECL 10K and 100K (both from Motorola and later Fairchild, IIRC) for clocks...
Improving 360 Addressing
The IBM 360 had an 8-bit op code. Memory-reference instructions were 32 bits long, consisting of opcode, destination register, source index, source base, and the address. Each of the three register fields was...
Improving 360 Addressing
On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 06:09:23 GMT in alt.folklore.computers, module CSECT STM R14,R12,12(R13) save regs LR R12,R15 set base to entry USING module,R12 rel base...
CRAM, DataCell, and 3850
Magnetic drums tend to be used either for computer memory, or swap space. Of course...
CRAM, DataCell, and 3850 4016
datacell was direct access .... i.e. applications selected records on strip (using BBHHCCR convention) and directly read-wrote the records. 3850(-MSS) were virtualized...
CRAM, DataCell, and 3850 4017
re: we had instrumented several systems in the san jose area, so that we could get trace of every record accessed. we used it...
Tek 4010, info and prices 4018
On Wed, 19 Jul 2006 14:12:43 -0400, KR Williams When you are the only person...
Tek 4010, info and prices 4019
AncientHacker That might have been a list price for a 4014, maybe with some accessories like the paper printer. (The 4014 was the model with...
19 issues of STLog Magazine at AtariMagazines.com
July 27 will be the 10th anniversary of the Clbuttic Computer Magazine Archive (www.atarimagazines.com). In celebration, today we're announcing...
History: How did Forth get its stacks 4021
No , the RET stack was a regsiter in the DEC CPU? that could act as a Return ...it was sort of automatic compared to other CPU's . NewForth can't use STACK for it's speed...
History: How did Forth get its stacks 4022
The 8008 had room for 7 levels of subroutine nesting. There were 8 program counters and when you called a subroutine it put the initial address of the subroutine...
History: How did Forth get its stacks 4023
Nuts. Thank you - I was thinking about our XDS machines. Data Machines might be right, though I remember a company...
History: How did Forth get its stacks 4024
The general answer is Yes. Problems are more than 2 fold: 1) private collectors. 2) Most museums have little to no interest in computers. The mentality of most curators and staff...
History: How did Forth get its stacks 4025
at one point, the follow-on to 4341 was going to be 801-based microprocessor ... in fact there was...
History: How did Forth get its stacks
On 18-7-06 13:20, in article See: Turing, A. M. "Proposals for the development in the Mathematics Division of an Automatic Computing Engine (ACE)." Report E882, Executive Committee, NPL February 1946. (Reprinted April 1972 as...
MTS, Emacs, and... WYLBUR
Doing some web searching, I found that at CERN, they used something developed at SLAC to make the use of their...
MTS, Emacs, and... WYLBUR
a lot of stuff was similarly done for XEDIT ... especially in conjunction with various amount of REX(X) programming ... recent mention of having...
Why is zSeries so CPU poor
McKown, John it was '79? or '81? asilomar acm sigops conference (i've lost my proceedings over the years and don't...
General Mills Computer 4030
The bear trade really got the accidental-rest insurance business off the ground, for example. There's an interesting discussion of the importance of the coffee- house in the...
General Mills Computer 4031
ey, Barb! Sorry I'm so long between postings. The big heat wave finally hit Michigan for a few days, so...
General Mills Computer 4032
Of course, I gather Radio Shack wasn't in such great financial state when Tandy bought it, so it may not...
DEC Rainbow was DEC VT100AA for good home
It was true of a fair bit of software for the IBM PC, too, and led to an entertaining arms race. Early on I recall using a utility called "Copy2PC...
How the Pentium Fell Short of a 360195 4034
Ah, this is interesting. Since the Newton-Raphson iteration for square roots involves repeated divisions, and an SRT divider can be used...
How the Pentium Fell Short of a 360195 4035
That is part of it. If you go back to CACM about 1988 or so plus or minus a few years...
How the Pentium Fell Short of a 360195 4036
With Nick, I am not either. I would say "Not enough to satisify" the general programming populice. APL is...
How the Pentium Fell Short of a 360195 4037
On 17 Aug 2006 15:56:31 -0700 in alt.folklore.computers, Use a better language: pbutt pointers instead of copying contents. Was that in this reference...
System 360 Model 195 Photos Find
The "Gallery of Old Iron" had recently taken up the gracious offer of the Rutherford Appleton Laboratory for other sites to reproduce, with acknowledgement, pictures from the...
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How Many 360195s and 370195s were shipped
But you offer no sum total. My MSS is up. The main paper was: %A Roger B. Lazarus %A Edward A. Voorhees %A Mark...
System360 Prototype 4041
John Savard It may have been only a cardboard mockup. IBM hadn't introduced any significantly improved computer products for several years (they had upgrades to their existing line...
System360 Prototype 4042
Anne & Lynn Wheeler While in a sense the above is correct, I think it'd be more accurate to say Watsons' (both) compensation was based on total sales of the company. If the company did well...
System360 Prototype 4043
the person was very explicit about the wording of the executive compensation plan ... as saying that watson got a specific straight sales commission on everything ibm sold (he said...
AT&T Labs vs. Google Labs R&D History
AT&T Labs vs. Google Labs - R&D History for some drift ... there was summary of some insbreastutional operations summer of 1981, previous reference to some of the detail (about some of the insbreastutions...
AT&T Labs vs. Google Labs R&D History
This report (from 1981) seems fairly accurate. I make a few notes, with minimal quoting. ... 2000 people was probably near the high-water mark; between the Divesbreasture (some went to Bellcore, the Economics...
The SEL 840 computer 4046
one apl-700 ref: in the very early 70s, the science center had taken apl-360 (from phili science center, iverson, falkoff, etc...
The SEL 840 computer 4047
what year? Over 100 minicomputer (as in small address space) companies existed. A somewhat nice tree-poster exists with many of these firms. .... Not likely. Mercury was really old and Minis were...
The SEL 840 computer 4048
Yup... saw 'em a lot a BRL in the 86 timeframe when I worked briefly for Alliant in Field...
harris was: SEL 4049
This is not Google's problem. This is the web's problem, and the people behind the web. Google is merely a search engine based on non-traditional information retrieval (CS not...
Gould, not Harris
from above: 1988 Concurrent Computer Corporation merged with MbuttCOMP. 1985 Concurrent Computer Corporation spun off from the Perkin-Elmer Corporation. 1974 Datacraft acquired by Harris Corporation. 1973 Interdata acquired by...
harris was: SEL 4051
Naw that's OK. It just jogged me out of my Museum search complancy. %A Thomas L. Sterling %A Ellery Y. Chan %Z Harris Corp. %T A Practical...
Metroliner telephone article
The following has an article from the Bell Laboratories Record about the original telephone service provided on the Penn Central...
Metroliner telephone article 4054
Philip Nasadowski Phil, I hope you as an engineer, will take a look at the article. Obviously the technology is very dated--what was a big deal to them 30 years you do now...
Metroliner telephone article 4055
I had thought that 'AMPS' (if I remembered that correctly) system was being test in the early to mid 80's. I was doing work for one of the companies that was...
Metroliner telephone article 4056
Your experience is very different from mine... I got my first cell phone in 1995 or so, and it ran me $100...
Metroliner telephone article 4057
Philip Nasadowski The article was written in March 1968 plus 1, just after service began, so it...
Metroliner telephone article 4058
Bell dealt with phones day in-day out, and likely knew the average caller better than the average caller knew himself. They knew RF, and knew...
Metroliner telephone article 4059
On Fri, 28 Jul 2006 21:40:01 GMT, Philip Nasadowski * "The Demark" in telephone-man-woman-in the street-speak. Actually that's not true -- they will...
Metroliner telephone article 4060
Philip Nasadowski Given the pwire concept was new, I don't see the problem of having the old brake stand as a back up. I don't think that stand caused debugging problems that...
Metroliner telephone article 4061
Maybe initially, but once P wire was debugged, there was no reason to retain it. The metros also were built as...
Metroliner telephone article 4062
Philip Nasadowski Probably cost more to remove it. Even back then propulsion costs were a concern (be it diesel fuel or electric power) and light weight saved money over the...
Metroliner telephone article 4063
John Mara That's really an inaccurate generalization. Three big organizations of that era--the Bell System, IBM, and the railroads all operated under various forms...
Metroliner telephone article 4064
Yep. My DSL service works just fine, my landline 9SAME LINE) phone won't give me a dial tone. Verizon SWEARS this is wiring in...
Metroliner telephone article 4065
On Sun, 30 Jul 2006 23:55:45 GMT, Philip Nasadowski The only wiring that would produce that effect is the wiring between the...
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