On Sep 23, 2022, at 1:35 PM, Chuck Guzis <ccl...@sydex.com> wrote: > > On 9/23/22 09:53, Paul Koning wrote: > >> Those are good examples, but is it "many" or just those two and maybe one or >> two more? For example, Burroughs and IBM mainframes were both very much >> "lights and switches" control panel type machines. For that matter, so were >> the other CDC products; the 6000 series was a bit of an outlier I think. > > How many supercomputers were there in the 1960s? I suppose you could > count the 360/195 as a ridiculous example of the opposite approach, but > eventually, even IBM saw the light. > > --Chuck
Yes, I was thinking "mainframes" not limited to "supercomputers". Then again, from what I remember of the one starring in "War Games", the Connection Machine had oodles of lights. paul