I remember some early days of my computing years. I visited IBM at Eglinton E. & Don Mills Rd., its sprawling complex. I knew a project manager from IBM when he worked at their new facility in Vaughan. I don’t think I truly realized the seminal work done at IBM then(60's&70's).
Murray 😊 On Wed, Apr 10, 2024 at 7:39 AM Paul Berger via cctalk < cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote: > > On 2024-04-10 2:21 a.m., Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: > > On 4/9/24 22:03, ben via cctalk wrote: > >> On 2024-04-09 8:53 p.m., Murray McCullough via cctalk wrote: > >>> I had not realized the IBM 360 was 60 yrs. old this month. I worked on > >>> such > >>> a computer in the late 60s in Toronto. What one could do with 8 Kbytes > of > >>> ram was remarkable! > >>> > >>> Happy computing > >>> > >>> Murray 🙂 > >> Real time sharing, not a 16K PDP 8? > > What model of a 360? 8K sounds a lot like a Model 20, which the purists > > may not consider to be a "real" member of the family. > > > > --Chuck > > > > > The IBM Don Mills plant in Toronto built model 20s. I knew guys who > bought their houses with the overtime working on them. They had > accumulated a lot of engineering changes that had not been cut into > production, so they would be assembled and then there where teams that > would apply the engineering changes before the systems where shipped. > > Paul. > >
