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From: petel@teksce.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM 1130 Nostalgia
Message-ID: <229@teksce.SCE.TEK.COM>
Date: Mon, 2-Feb-87 15:21:09 EST
Article-I.D.: teksce.229
Posted: Mon Feb  2 15:21:09 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 5-Feb-87 01:36:14 EST
Reply-To: petel@teksce.UUCP (Pete Lancashire)
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Organization: Tektronix, Inc., Beaverton, OR.
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Summary: IBM 1800, the 1130 with a hard hat


In article <504@PSUECLA>, mrb@psuecla.BITNET writes:
> 
> Did any one ever see a real live IBM 1800, which was an 1130 with data acqui-
> sition facilities?
> 
Yep, I even know where 2 are still running a *small*
petrochemical plant, one is an online backup for the other,
As of about 6 months ago, the second 1800 had only been
needed less than a dozen times. Tandom eat your hart out :-).

Pete Lancashire