6 Mar
2011
6 Mar
'11
2:44 p.m.
On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 14:36 +0100, Bob Marcan wrote:
On Sun, 27 Feb 2011 13:32:34 +0000 Always Learning centos@g7.u22.net wrote:
PDP being a 'main franme'? Baby mainframe perhaps when compared to Honeywell's (later Bull's) Level 66? Level 66 had 36 bit words which could be used as 6 BCD characters or 4 ASCII characters.
I never saw any DEC installtion :-(
Working exclusively on Honeywell for over 30 years I was a bit biased.
Saw the Amstelveen (NL) computer centre of KLM. It had over 400 hard disk drives!
I also saw Honeywell upgrading a L66 machine so it would run faster. The engineer pulled-out a PCB and took it away. That 'upgrade' cost over 1 million NLG (Dutch guilders).
With best regards,
Paul. England, EU.