> -----Original Message----- > From: cctalk [mailto:cctalk-boun...@classiccmp.org] On Behalf Of Chuck Guzis > Sent: 25 May 2016 18:08 > To: jwsm...@jwsss.com; General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts > <cctalk@classiccmp.org> > Subject: Re: Front panel switches - what did they do? > > On 05/25/2016 09:01 AM, jwsmobile wrote: > > > McAuto in St. Louis used a lot of the /20's for their printer farm, > > and that was the only place I ever saw one in use. They spooled tape > > to printer in the use it was put to. > > According to WikiP, IBM leased over 7,000 of the 20s, so that would make it a > contender for volume--I doubt that half as many 1130s were sold. >
According to Wikip around 10,000 1130's were sold. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1130 one salesman claims to have sold 1,000. They were dotted about all over the place, so when I was a Student in the UK Newcastle University had a 360/67. The Polytechnic where I studied had an 1130 as an RJE station, as did Durham University, the "Gas Board", and the British Ship Research Council. Newcastle University also had an 1130 for As I have said else where the Institute of Oceanographic sciences had one on a ship, and at Bidston Observatory. There is one preserved at The National Museum of Computing, Bletchly. http://www.tnmoc.org/news/current-projects/ibm-1130-system-restoration-during-2011 which came from Liverpool University.... .. which almost takes us back in a circle, as that link shows the switches and lights..... Dave G4UGM
