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From: ado@elsie.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: IBM 1130 (1800) Nostalgia
Message-ID: <7327@elsie.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 18:26:45 EST
Article-I.D.: elsie.7327
Posted: Sat Feb  7 18:26:45 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 8-Feb-87 07:55:15 EST
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Organization: NIH-LEC, Bethesda, MD
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Summary: An IBM 1800 with UNIX on it

> Did any one ever see a real live IBM 1800, which was an 1130 with data acqui-
> sition facilities?

IBM 1800's aren't that old--and their architecture was ahead of its time.
At the University of California at San Diego's Revelle College,
we were able to put UNIX on an 1800 back in 1975.

Okay, okay. . .so the 1800 didn't run UNIX.  But it provided the disk
storage for a PDP-11/40 clone that did run UNIX--and for Texas Instruments
and Modcomp minis as well, via one-megabit serial links that ran between
CAMAC crates in the 1800 and the other machines.

The 1800 had been decommissioned by the time I left UCSD in 1979;
I still have fond memories of it though. 

Ours had been named "Blue Max" when it and a companion--named "Red Baron"--
were used for sea-going research by the Scripps Institute of Oceanography
in earlier times.  We followed the pattern of naming computers after their
cabinetry colors; our Evans & Sutherland Picture System I was the "Black Eye"
while our Varian--which replaced the 1800 as a central disk server--
was the "White Tornado."

I never did convince folks to pronounce it "1-80-0".
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