Re:IBM mainframe tube module part II: Powering up and using ...
by Stratoscope on Sunday January 14, 2018 @06:24PM
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> an engineer inside IBM that liked the blinking lights :-)
I can relate. I bought my first personal computer shortly after the IBM PC came out - but I did not get a PC. It had no lights or switches! How could I debug my code?
Instead I got an Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1 S-100 system because it had all the lights and switches.
Not one of my wisest technology decisions! But a few months later a friend bought a PC and an Apple II, decided there wasn't enough software for the PC, and gave it to me figuring I would write some kind of software on it.
I can relate. I bought my first personal computer shortly after the IBM PC came out - but I did not get a PC. It had no lights or switches! How could I debug my code?
Instead I got an Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1 S-100 system because it had all the lights and switches.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Ithaca+Intersystems+DPS-1&tb...
Not one of my wisest technology decisions! But a few months later a friend bought a PC and an Apple II, decided there wasn't enough software for the PC, and gave it to me figuring I would write some kind of software on it.