On 9/13/24 22:21, Mark Huffstutter via cctalk wrote:
Well, actually, the FAA's National Airspace System commandeered all SLT cards from retired 360's to keep the 9020D and 9020E computers running. These were slightly modified 360/50 and 360/65 processors, with small additions to the microcode and different front panels. There were lots of owned 360's in the 1980's.I think David meant He saw them working on refurbishing the panel itself. LCM Staff designed and Built the circuitry to generate the pseudo blinkenlights effect, along with converting to LEDs. As I recall, the Panel was the only thing left of the original 360/91. I do remember Paul Allen had spent a lot of time looking For a restorable 360, ending up with mostly bad tips. Flew a Guy to a storage building in Australia, only to Discover in person....nope. An article mentioned that, since 360s were pretty much leased machines, they Returned to IBM for summary execution.....
Jon
