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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by DanBC on Monday June 19, 2017 @03:39PM (#14589778)
They reference IBM labs. The Beauty of Fractal Images talks about an IBM 4361-5 with extended precision, and an IBM 4250 printer for one of the monochrome plates near the end of the book.

The Science of Fractal Images lists, as credits for the colour plates, these people and institutions: http://imgur.com/a/KSnDZ

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Re:One-Hour Mandelbrot: Creating a Fractal on the Vintage Xe... by rbanffy on Tuesday June 20, 2017 @04:32AM (#14592963)
A cousin, the 4341, was my first mainframe. That was the first time I was exposed to the concept behind pg's "beating the averages article": at a time most of my colleagues were writing dBase or COBOL code, I interned with people using Cincom's Mantis. It was the Rails of the 3270.
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