<p>Ha! It didn't have tubes at least! It was an industrial computer that was used on the production floor of the GE mid size transformer plant in Rome, Ga in 1977. <br>
I hacked on the tape reader so it worked to load the "OS" instead of 12 hours of toggle switches. So GE bought a four word switch bank and a screen output since they didn't have to buy a tape reader. Saleman was PISSED! IBM or Wang. Don't recall. </p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Dec 15, 2011 4:55 PM, "Rich Faulkner" <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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Well, I did say 1987. Not 1947.... : P<br>
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On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 16:49 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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You had an os choice!? All I had was a row of 8 toggle switches and a separate "insert/commit" switch. <br>
Oh. And it could write to paper punch tape but not read from it. The reader was on a plotter in another building.<br>
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On Dec 15, 2011 4:02 PM, "Scott Castaline" <<a href="mailto:skotchman@gmail.com" target="_blank">skotchman@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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CP/M or DOS?<br>
On 12/15/2011 03:39 PM, Greg Clifton wrote:<br>
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Rich,<br>
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256k, 512k or 1Mb of RAM??? And don't forget an IBM Color Graphics Card and a CGA monitor to go with!<br>
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On Thu, Dec 15, 2011 at 3:34 PM, Rich Faulkner <<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a> <mailto:<a href="mailto:rfaulkner@34thprs.org" target="_blank">rfaulkner@34thprs.org</a>>> wrote:<br>
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  I remember back when my dream machine included dual 5-1/4"<br>
  floppies and a dual 10MB HDDs!  Big thinking for 1987.........the<br>
  rest of the spec has been lost in layers of dust in time....<br>
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  I'm holding out for my quantum computer...forget the flying<br>
  cars....RinL<br>
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  On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 15:23 -0500, Jim Kinney wrote:<br>
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  Heh, heh. I'm holding out for a quad socket magney-cours box with<br>
  12 cores each chip and 512GB RAM and x8 3TB drives.<br>
  :-)<br>
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  On Dec 15, 2011 3:07 PM, "JD" <<a href="mailto:jdp@algoloma.com" target="_blank">jdp@algoloma.com</a><br>
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    On 12/15/2011 01:00 PM, Michael H. Warfield wrote:<br>
    > On Thu, 2011-12-15 at 11:49 -0600, Erik Mathis wrote:<br>
    >> Hi,<br>
    >><br>
    >> I have a PowerEdge SC1425 you can have for free. ST: BCJ12C1<br>
    >> I might have from 160G SATA2 drives you can have also.<br>
    ><br>
    > I've got a PowerEdge 2850 and I guess Jim has other offers<br>
    on the table<br>
    > as well.<br>
    ><br>
    > Downsides:<br>
    > MCA SCSI Drives<br>
    > 2U Form Factor<br>
    > Needs rails<br>
    > Noisy (belongs in a rack)<br>
    ><br>
    > Upside:<br>
    > Dual 3.0GHz Xenons w/ hyperthreading for 4 CPUs<br>
    > Raid controller w/ 6 36G Drives already installed<br>
    > 4096MB Ram<br>
    > Dual Power Supplies<br>
    ><br>
    > Way more machine than we need in almost all respects.<br>
    ><br>
    > I'm setting up its twin to do some high power number<br>
    crunching.  Between<br>
    > the two of them, it's more than doubled the noise in my<br>
    office and one<br>
    > is already buried in a rack.<br>
    ><br>
    > We'll wait and see what Jim wants to do.<br>
    ><br>
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    Not that any more cooks are needed, but making that into a<br>
    libvirt box with a<br>
    few VMs (KVM, LXC) would be pretty easy.<br>
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