Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a > data center? > > https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg That photo must be making the rounds; I found it in an ED article by Bill Wong in my inbox today: https://www.electronicdesign.com/technologies/embedded-revolution/article/21123625/cobol-contracts-and-clarification --Chuck
Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 03/03/2020 11:39 PM, Dave Wade via cctalk wrote: For those interested there are several 360/67 pictures here... http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/index.html HUH! The first two pictures there are MIRRORED! (pictures 8 and 9 are right.) Jon
Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 03/03/2020 10:44 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote: ETA: I believe that the CPU shown is a 360/50. Yes, 360/50 (or 2050 for the purists) had 4 rollers on the console display. 360/30 had none, 360/40 had 2, 360/65 had 4. Jon
Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 03/03/2020 09:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a data center? https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg That's an IBM publicity photo. Don't expect anything real in them. Jon
RE: Good picture of a S360.
For those interested there are several 360/67 pictures here... http://history.cs.ncl.ac.uk/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/index.html and one of the 360/40 console at MOTAT, Auckland, New Zealand here:- https://1drv.ms/u/s!Ag4BJfE5B3onlq0VBQd65MgE8EH67g?e=1DiSyI Dave > -Original Message- > From: cctalk On Behalf Of Chris Zach via > cctalk > Sent: 04 March 2020 03:25 > To: CCTalk mailing list > Subject: Good picture of a S360. > > From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a > data center? > > https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg
Re: Good picture of a S360.
Marc reckoned > Yeah, a 360/50. When all the tapes are organized and color matched to the > computer, you know it’s just a photo-op of a fake data center, or at best a > real one with many hours of preparation for a beauty shot. Nice picture > though! It could be the 'white room'. This was a windowless machine room IBM set up for marketing and product photography of their systems in the 1960s. I think it was located in NY. There was only a paragraph or two about the white room in (IIRC) the book 'The Interface: IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design' by John Harwood. There happened to be a copy in the Uni of Queensland bookshop a couple years ago. I spotted it on the shelf and thumbed through it at the time, but it had so little on what interested me (and I suspect cctalk readers) relative to the cost I didn't buy it so I'm only going on memory here. Steve.
Re: Good picture of a S360.
Yeah, a 360/50. When all the tapes are organized and color matched to the computer, you know it’s just a photo-op of a fake data center, or at best a real one with many hours of preparation for a beauty shot. Nice picture though! Marc > On Mar 3, 2020, at 8:13 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk > wrote: > > > >> On Mar 3, 2020, at 7:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk >> wrote: >> >>> On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: >>> From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a >>> data center? >>> >>> https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg >> >> Marketing models. Too clean. > > At least I finally know what the tapes that went in those cases looked like. > :-) I have at least a couple of the cases that came out of Tektronix 40+ > years ago. > > Zane > > >
Re: Good picture of a S360.
ETA: I believe that the CPU shown is a 360/50. --Chuck
Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 3/3/20 8:12 PM, Zane Healy wrote: > At least I finally know what the tapes that went in those cases looked like. > :-) I have at least a couple of the cases that came out of Tektronix 40+ > years ago. Every manufacturer had their own version of the hard tape cases. 3M, for exmaple, used a rubber "boot" in the center of the case that expanded when a "plug" was depressed. Squeeze tabs/push buttons in the center were also used. Sad that most of the hard cases were junked when the "Wright Line" hanging strips came in. --Chuck
Re: Good picture of a S360.
> On Mar 3, 2020, at 7:33 PM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk > wrote: > > On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: >> From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a >> data center? >> >> https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg > > Marketing models. Too clean. At least I finally know what the tapes that went in those cases looked like. :-) I have at least a couple of the cases that came out of Tektronix 40+ years ago. Zane
Re: Good picture of a S360.
On 3/3/20 7:24 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk wrote: > From Imgur. The question: How the heck can you wear stiletto heels in a > data center? > > https://i.imgur.com/rakM62J.jpg Marketing models. Too clean.
