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From: klm@munsell.UUCP (Kevin McBride)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now...IBM 1130 nostalgia
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Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 10:49:25 EDT
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Posted: Wed Jun 24 10:49:25 1987
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Keywords: Talking IBM 1130s
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In article <340@cos.COM> howard@COS.COM (Howard C. Berkowitz) writes:
>
>Nostalgia again.  The 1130 was my first computer as well, at
>American University.  To use it, one passed a basic operation
>and a basic FORTRAN programmed instruction course, and then
>signed up for machine time.

One of my first two computers was the IBM 1130 as well.  I started using
this beast, as well as a dual-processor HP 2000c' Time-Sharing system,
as a freshman in high school.

Nostalgia?  Yes.  Useful?  Not any more.  I'm not even sure the 1130
was useful back in the early '70s when I first got my hands on it.
Gawd what a beast.  and 8K memory too!  (snicker, snort :-)

What I really liked about the 1130 was the revolutionary non-volatile
data archive format that it employed.  Your data could not be erased, and
was safe from almost everything except fire.  I hear that IBM even obtained
a patent for this wonderful media. :-) :-) :-)

They called it the Controlled Advance Reader Data System, or

	C.A.R.D.S.

:-) :-) :-)

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