The Wayback Machines
There’s a lot of work preserving the work that had been done to preserve some of the important computing developments of the past. My own …
Category: IBM1130
The IBM 1130 Computing System, introduced in 1965, was IBM’s least expensive computer at that time. It was aimed at price-sensitive, computing-intensive technical markets like education and engineering, succeeding the IBM 1620 in that market segment.
The 1130 was also used as an intelligent front-end for attaching an IBM 2250 Graphics Display Unit, or as remote job entry (RJE) workstation, connected to a System/360 mainframe.
IBM1130
The IBM-1130 was the first ‘real’ computer I ever touched. It was a fun, interactive experience that helped me understand how computers worked at every …