Computing In The 1970s (1) - Honeywell 64/40
Another trip down memory lane to the days when computers would only compute and not do anything else very fancy. No internet, no photos, no music, not even a virus to worry about.
Around this time I was a marketing support guy for a mainframe computer vendor. Here I was burning the midnight oil preparing a benchmark test for a prospective customer. I had to take some data and programs from an existing computer and convert them to run on this model that we were pitching to the customer and demonstrate the capability of the new proposed system. This meant doing the programming changes, working out the job control language, and operating the system. It needed dedicated access to the computer and that was usually made available over the midnight shift.
This system had something like 512K bytes of of memory, and a couple of 300 megabyte disk drives as well as several 9 track tape drives. Other devices attached were punch card readers and a line printer. It was able to run several jobs concurrently, and had database and communications capabilities - a big step forward at this time.
Computing In The 1970s (1) - Honeywell 64/40
Another trip down memory lane to the days when computers would only compute and not do anything else very fancy. No internet, no photos, no music, not even a virus to worry about.
Around this time I was a marketing support guy for a mainframe computer vendor. Here I was burning the midnight oil preparing a benchmark test for a prospective customer. I had to take some data and programs from an existing computer and convert them to run on this model that we were pitching to the customer and demonstrate the capability of the new proposed system. This meant doing the programming changes, working out the job control language, and operating the system. It needed dedicated access to the computer and that was usually made available over the midnight shift.
This system had something like 512K bytes of of memory, and a couple of 300 megabyte disk drives as well as several 9 track tape drives. Other devices attached were punch card readers and a line printer. It was able to run several jobs concurrently, and had database and communications capabilities - a big step forward at this time.