Tom Lyon ✅Happy Mainframe Day!
OTD 1964: IBM announces the System/360 family. 8-bit bytes ftw!
Shown: Operator at console of Princeton's IBM/360 Model 91.
Joseph Elfelt@aka_pugs The high school I went to had several terminals connected to an IBM 360 at the University of Minnesota. I started to learn how to code using those terminals. This was in the late '60s.
mike805@mappingsupport @aka_pugs What sort of terminals? Teletypes? And they had leased lines to the university?
360/91 was the high end mainframe at the time, that thing could have megabytes of RAM made by people manually stringing cores on wires.