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| Thread ID: 88659 | 2008-04-04 07:05:00 | Wanganui Computer ??? | Joe Blogs (35) | Press F1 |
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| 656009 | 2008-04-04 08:04:00 | It may have been a Unisys 2200 And I would say it was a Sperry / Univac mainframe, and in 86 by the looks of it Sperry Corp and Burroughs Corp merged to become Unisys. Thats when this model came out |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 656010 | 2008-04-04 08:25:00 | You may want to check this dude out (liam.xinqu.net) He'll tell you exactly what the specs were. It looks like he maintained it, and was a systems programmer / analyst for it Look under 86-88, and 88-92 His email is up the top |
Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 656011 | 2008-04-04 08:27:00 | Interesting to note that a google search for "wanganui computer" is finding this thread already | Joe Blogs (35) | ||
| 656012 | 2008-04-04 08:33:00 | Pretty quick then. | vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 656013 | 2008-04-04 08:33:00 | Well I thought Friday night blues mighta had something to do with it. :D almost - hard week. |
vitalstatistix (9182) | ||
| 656014 | 2008-04-04 20:48:00 | If you want to compare early computers with modern ones, this may be of interest. During 1966 and 1967 I was a service rep for Burroughs and serviced mainframe computers at Griffins, the Reserve Bank and General Motors. These were all Burroughs B200s. The machines had a clock speed of 125kHz and had 8k of RAM. The RAM was not volatile memory but was magnetic core storage. There was no keyboard or screen and all input was by punched cards or paper tape. Data manipulation and long term storage was handled using magnetic tape units. The printer was quite capable as it was a drum printer printing up to 1400 lines per minute. It makes me quite nostalgic thinking about it. The cost of leasing this gear would have enabled the clients to buy several modern high spec PC each month! |
Bruce.Mitchell (10359) | ||
| 656015 | 2008-04-07 05:15:00 | my boss who worked on it say it was defently a Sperry and he thinks it was a Sperry 1100/60 total storage of a few hundred megs |
robsonde (120) | ||
| 656016 | 2008-04-10 08:16:00 | It was a bit bigger than a Burroughs B200. ;) And it would use tapes rather than disks. Tapes are a backup medium. One Burroughs "large system" I used a lot had 3MB of memory and a 5MHz CPU. The system disk drive had a head for each track. The "user hard drives used exchangeable disk packs. (The 5V supply was capable of giving 4000A). That was a very fast computer, handling a heavy load. The Wanganui one would have had a lot of diskpack drives. |
Graham L (2) | ||
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