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Iconic consoles of the IBM System/360 mainframes, 55 years old today
- baxtr 8y agoA dupe to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19598960 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19598960
- RickJWagner 8y agoIt is a cool looking console. I wish I had one, just to wire it up to stuff around the house. :)
- 13of40 8y agoAbout 20 years ago I was married to someone whose father had a wrecking yard. I was out there and noticed some computer parts, so I dug around and found the major parts of a PDP-11, including one of those TTY printer/keyboard consoles. (http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.jpg http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/la36.jpg) Unfortunately, years of sitting outside in Western Oregon weather had damaged it beyond any hope of repair.
- jrjrjrjr 8y agocan still hear an la36 decwriter in my head anytime. 100 boxes of greenbar later.