[Gllug] Crashes (owing to the heatwave?)

[Peter Ball]

On 8 Aug 2003 at 21:17, Chris Bell wrote:

> On Fri 08 Aug, Christian Smith wrote:
> 
> > 
> > IFAIK.
> > 
> > S/390 (or zSeries as they are now) are neither PowerPC or POWER4.
> > 
> > They have their own architecture that goes back to the origional
> > S/360 from the sixties, though extended to 64bits now. 
> 
>    Were IC's around then? I was struggling with valves and overheating
> germaium transistors then, and my dad was still carting core stores
> around for ICL well into the seventies.
> 
About 1970 I used to work on an ICL clone of an IBM 360 - 32k of core 
was 6' x 19" rack, the cpu was another one and the final rack was the 
disk control for 2 removal hard disk drives which looked like washing 
machines and the 10meg ( I think) removable disk drives where like 
double high dustbin lids in their cases (6 platters is I remember 
correctly. - they don't make them like that now - thank god.


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