Re: [OM] I'm back, with an E-410!

[Moose]

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> The ENIAC comment took me down a mental trip on the way-back machine. 
> This is the first computer I ever saw.  Announced 5 years after the PM 
> prediction but probably still well more than 1-1/2 tons and definitely 
> more than 1000 tubes.
> <http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP705.html>
> And this one is the first one I ever wrote a program for.  No tubes. :-)
> <http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1440.html>
>   

I don't remember for sure the first one I saw. I suspect I may have seen 
one during a high school age guided tour of the Bevatron at UC by a 
family friend physicist/professor who used it in his research work. I 
imagine there must have been a latest, best computer around somewhere. I 
was more interested in the BIG machine that "smashed atoms".

The first one I clearly recall seeing was also the first one for which I 
wrote programs. I recall it being labeled 7090/94. We were not allowed 
anywhere near it, dropping our bundles of punch cards at the desk in 
front of the glass doors protecting it from the rigors of the world.

Your link shows separate pics for 7090 and 7094, but I suspect they 
looked the same. The 7094 debuted at the same time as your 1440, 1962, 
yours for business and mine for scientific uses. 
<http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_2423PH7094.html>

All I wrote for it were assignments for a programming class in ALGOL and 
FORTRAN.

Moose
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