who here already worked with these ?

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Bill Campbell wrote:

> The first computer I used was the Bendix G-20 which was a bit
> after the G-15.  I learned FORTRAN on the G-20 when I was handed
> a deck of cards with a program to debug, a copy of McGracken's
> FORTRAN manual, and free access to the key punch and computer.
[...]

Bruce Marshall wrote:
[...]
 > Have used:
 >
 > IBM Ramac
 > IBM 650   (not mentioned but preceded a lot of what they show)
 > IBM 7090
 > IBM 1401   (which was used to load up progs for the 7090)
 >
 > and a whole bunch of things after the above.


David A. Bandel wrote:
[...]

 > I was a late-comer:  UNIVAC 1108 was my teething ring.  University of
 > Miami, Coral Gables, FL,  c. 1973.
 >


Cool !!!  So far our list found three supergeeks who used supercomputers :)

I remember one time one pretty old IBM technician came to my office for 
rescuing some problems on the old IBM server ( not that old as listed in 
the link ) my manger who used to be a system programmer for banks 
talked to him and both were glad with conversation like "Haha, do you 
remember the printer ... of the system ... ?", "Do you remember the huge 
disks ... of the system ... ?"

I guess three of you will be very happy to talk together about those 
supercomputers :)