Subj : Re: computers
To   : poindexter FORTRAN
From : Bob Worm
Date : Sat Jul 20 2024 22:01:29

  Re: Re: computers
  By: poindexter FORTRAN to Nightfox on Sat Jul 20 2024 08:27:00

 > The Computer History museum has an IBM 1401 mainframe computer. The guts
 > of it were donated by a guy who retired from a pool maintenance company
 > in southern California.
 >
 > He'd been using it to run his pool business from his garage since the
 > mid 70s.

Crikey - he could probably have retired 10 years earlier if he hadn't had to power that thing all this time!

BobW
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