A blog about tinkering, fiddling and obscure technologies
Wednesday, May 14, 2014
A Little Fun with Cassette Tapes
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I recently worked down my collection of high-bias cassette tapes for use with a 4-track cassette deck that I use for recording. There are no...
Friday, April 11, 2014
Happy 50th System/360! Pt.5: Anatomy of an SLT Card
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When IBM introduced System/360 they also announced an entirely new circuit technology called Solid Logic Technology or SLT. It was spawne...
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Thursday, April 10, 2014
Happy 50th System/360! Pt. 4: Design
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When I was thirteen I went to the science museum in Boston where they had a display about computers. Contained in that display was the front...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Happy 50th System/360! Pt.3 Isn't it Fabulous?
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This is a bit of a silly post about all the fabulous "action shots" that were produced with these computers as a primer for a di...
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
Happy 50th, System/360! Pt.2: The Family
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An early promotional photo showing, across the bottom, the then models 30, 40, 50, 60 and 70 processors For the second part of my annive...
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