Star Office 7

[Bruce Marshall]

On Tuesday 04 November 2003 21:28 pm, Bill Campbell wrote:
> >"My first computer had its only memory on a drum"....
>
> Sounds like either a Bendix G-15 or something from Univac.
>

IBM 850   (IIRC)   Drum  was run by a drive belt and if there was a power 
hit, sometimes the belt would snap.



> One thing that amazed me was walking into the computer room at the
> Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, to find not only a Burroughs
> B-3800, the same type of main frame I managed for years, but an IBM
> 026 keypunch still in use.  This was in 1995!  The last time I had to
> use an 026 was in 1967 or thereabouts.

I'll bet somewhere in the gummit they are still using them today.


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+ Bruce S. Marshall  bmarsh at bmarsh.com  Bellaire, MI         11/05/03 
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