Re: University credentials used by third parties

[B Kaye <bdk () UNB CA>]

At the University of New Brunswick we did the same migration from a 1620 
to a 360/50 at about the same time. The room had no air conditioning and 
we used to shut the machine down in the evening in the summer when it 
got too hot. As a grad student we sometimes got the whole machine as a 
Personal Computer for late night and weekend work.
The front panel switches were interesting and useful once one persuaded 
the IBM techs to lets us in on the inner secrets.

A number of years later we tore apart the controller for the 2260 
graphic terminals and lo and behold it had core memories used to 
generate the character for the screen. I still have that board and have 
planned to frame it.

.....Brian Kaye


On 08/20/2010 12:07 PM, Marty Hoag wrote:
>   That was what I thought of when someone mentioned
> front panel switches! Only it was on a 360/50 way
> back in '69 when I started. NDSU had gone from an
> IBM 1620 to an IBM 360/50 with the help of an NSF
> loan about a year earlier. For a while there was
> such a gap in processing speed we'd actually shut
> down the computer in the evening. ;-)
>
> Marty
>
> Jeff Kell wrote:
> > Ahh... we're going pictures now :-)
> > Some of you with 360 experience may recognize this...
> >
> > Jeff