Re: Rewriting SSA. Is This A Chance For GNU/Linux?

On 04/04/2025 01:16, rbowman wrote:

On Thu, 3 Apr 2025 16:38:57 -0400, c186282 wrote:
 

    The 360/370 boxes WERE really popular, so I'm gonna GUESS there's a
    least one or two still chugging away. Maint cost would be insane
    these days ... but you can kinda bury that in the budget while new
    hardware stands out more and in more places.

 I'm not sure there are any little old ladies left to knit magnetic core.

Last time I looked they were little asian ladies wit teeny nimble fingers.
Did all the coil winding in that factory.

The tape drives were fragile when new but they and the disk drives the
size of a washing machine may have been replaced over the years. My mother
had a plastic thing to keep layer cakes fresh that I was always reminded
of by the 2311's removable media.
 https://d1yx3ys82bpsa0.cloudfront.net/groups/ibm-1311-2311.pdf
 7.5 MB!!! What can you ever use that much storage for?  I bought a microSD
last week for another RPi project. It's getting hard to find them less
than 64 GB.

Sad but true. You would think they would give 8GB ones away in a box of cornflakes...
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