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From: msf@amelia (Michael S. Fischbein)
Newsgroups: talk.bizarre,comp.misc
Subject: Re: What the world needs now...IBM 1130 nostalgia
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Date: Fri, 3-Jul-87 13:02:51 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul  3 13:02:51 1987
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Keywords: Talking IBM 1130s
Summary: I remember too
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I just wanted to put my $.02 memories on line also -- remember the printwheel
printer (I can't remember the model number)?  When it did a line of
identical characters (can you say block comments?) the whole printer
would rock about six inches...

One of my compatriots signed some of his high-school yearbooks with a
five line assembler program to wipe the disk.

I look at microprocessor specifications today (25MHz 68020, MIPS
chips, etc) and think back to 3 16-bit registers, LIBFs and CALLs, and
the everpopular XIO.  Of course, booting was easy:  turn the beast on,
put up /0038 in the IAR and let'er rip;  Good 'ol ferrite cores won't
forget where you were just caused you turned the power off.

Of course, if one bit or so had decayed, you went to the IPL card.
ROM?  what's ROM?  That's a joke, right?.....
		mike