Seems like every University I have worked at had mainframe. ?University of Kentucky had a prime, a vax, a cray, and ibm. ?When I left the University of Georgia, they still had a mainframe for the budgeting software. ? Just can¡¯t escape the junk.
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On May 13, 2022, at 1:25 PM, AlyssonR <alyssonrowan@...> wrote:
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Prime systems have ALL gone that way - they were just universally hated.
ICL mainframes were4 usually cannibalised to keep the peripherals going on other sites.
IBM mainframes are just upgraded to the point of being Hrothgar's Axe.
DEC mainframes are all in museums (or still in use).
Data General are used as boat anchors or as reinforcing in sea walls.
Honeywell mainframes just melt and get washed away.
Burroughs systems are always recycled as set dressing on SF 'B' movies.
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On Fri, 13 May 2022 at 16:23, fcewen00 <
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A dozen years ago or more, we got ahold of the Campus' Prime mainframe.? Rather than keeping it, we beat it to death with sledgehammers because we hated it so much.?
I still have an 80 column Hollerith card lying around. Ex:
I had a chance to pick up an IBM 027 keypunch a while back, along with a card reader(I think) but even for me that's a bit much in the clutter dept. Fun fact: early minicomputers used RS-232 to talk to VDTs as well as card readers.
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