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No, we just called them PCs or XTs or -- rarely! they were expensive! -- ATs. BTW 3090 was a mainframe, IIRC.
by ubermonkey 3y ago
No, we just called them PCs or XTs or -- rarely! they were expensive! -- ATs.
BTW 3090 was a mainframe, IIRC.
- benley 3y agoI was about to be like "surely you mean the S/390 series" but nope, you are correct! Apparently 3090 came in between the S/370 and S/390 series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3090
- glhaynes 3y agoI remember! My dad had an extra 3090 metal badge (maybe 2–3× the size of the ones on PCs) that we had glued over our XT's badge for a while lol
- cwbriscoe 3y agoYou are right. I used to work on one. Yay COBOL.