[ih] AT&T, carterfone, the 103, and why didnt BBSs start earlier?

[Spencer Dawkins]

Dave,

I'm pretty sure that no one could actually see the other boxes behind a 7090 
:-)

just kidding, of course.

i showed up in 360-land, in about 1974 or so ... a 360/50 was small by 
comparison (but only by comparison)...

Spencer


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> Randy Bush wrote:
>> ... an ibm lameframe, and there were only lameframes in '62,
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>
> Just within the IBM stable, in the early 60s, 7090s [1] were mainframes, 
> but the 1401 [2] and 1620 [3] definitely were not.
>
> The 1620 introduced a lot of folk to computing.
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> d/
>
> [1]  7090, size of large room: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090>
>
> [2]  1401, size of fridge: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401>
>
> [2]  1620, size of desk: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620>
> -- 
>
>   Dave Crocker
>   Brandenburg InternetWorking
>   bbiw.net