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From: peter@utah-cs.UUCP
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Subject: Re: LA and the IBM 1130
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Date: Fri, 13-Feb-87 13:57:12 EST
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I think the 1130 clone you are talking about was the "Meta-4" (yuk, yuk),
and I think the machine was built by DSC (Digital Scientific Corp.???).
By the name you might guess it was to be the answer to emulating all
know architectures.  It was a neat little machine and provided me with
my first exposure to microcode.  Instead of the 1130 console it had
a spiffy selectric golfball typewriter as the console.

Every programmer should learn to program in that environment.  You
learn the  "think first, hack later" rule when it takes a while (hah!)
to get a compiler loaded, let alone started on compiling. 

It was also my first exposure to  the lousy power we had in the
area (South of Boston), since it needed to be cold started
every day at 9:40am, whether it showed any signs of a crash or
not.  This turned out to be due to a daily power sag, which
was not enouhg to trip the power fail circuits.

Peter Ford (peter@cs.utah.edu).