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Continues to amaze me: IBM1301 Disk drive, as used on IBM 1401, had a maximum
capacity of (gasp) 2,000,000 characters. The pack did not weight twenty
pounds, but was definitely heavy enough. A floppy disk holds almost as much
and has faster access time to boot.

Maximum sore storage for a 1401 was 16K characters. Character had 6 bits
BA8421, with a checkbit and a wordmark bit.

John McKee

Quoting Alan Shore <AlanShore@xxxxxxxx>:

Ahhhh - COBOL. Memories.
ANOTHER dying language.


Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx
"If you're going through Hell, keep going" - Winston Churchill


midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 02/07/2008 01:54:49 PM:

I don't know about that Rebecca...

There are some pretty old guys on this list that wrote most
of the orignal code for the Social Security Administration,
using chisels and stone tablets writing in the ancient language
of Cobol.

Rebecca.Perdue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

>OK, I guess I have to weigh in on this too and I bet I have you all
beat!
>
>How about an IBM 7080 and 1401 (the latter had no disk drives of course
-
>just card or tape input). The 1401 probably had 64K or 32K of memory at
>most! You modified programs IN STORAGE to make them take different path,

>etc. There were NO consoles.
>
>
>
>
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