Discussion of large systems

Wed Nov 1 14:41:24 CST 2006

On 1 Nov 2006 at 13:37, Brad Parker wrote:

> Originally we had something like a lowly 360/30 (this was in Wilmington
> Del) but then a 370/158 was moved down from NYC.  All of the databases
> were on tape - disk was only used for temporary storage for a long time.
> Later we got CICS and more on-line disk storage, and (yowza!) things like
> source code control.

729's on the model 30?

No matter how you cut it, sorting on tape beat sorting cards on unit 
record equipment...

Cheers,
Chuck