On Sun, 2026-03-01 at 13:13 -0700, ben via cctalk wrote: > The first computer I ever used was an IBM 1130 my city’s school > district office at when I was a 14-year-old high school student. > This was in 1974.
My university phased out their 1130 and replaced it with Varian V-73. Then they discovered that Varian didn't offer a COBOL compiler, which they still wanted to teach. For my senior project, I wrote microcode that convinced the V-73 it was an IBM 1130. I didn't do the I/O in microcode (ran out of room) so two faculty members wrote V-73 code to support it. https://vandyke.mynetgear.com/1401/V70/
