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Re: What is the oldest computer that could be used today for real work? [message #410907 is a reply to message #410894] Sat, 11 September 2021 07:36 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
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Originally posted by: Thomas Koenig

Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> schrieb:
> Scott Lurndal <scott@slp53.sl.home> wrote:
>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
>>> scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) writes:
>>>
>>>> Dan Espen <dan1espen@gmail.com> writes:
>>>> > John Goerzen <jgoerzen@complete.org> writes:
>>>> >
>>>> >> On 2021-09-08, Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>> >>> You can still run programs compiled on a 360 on the latest z box.
>>>> >>
>>>> >> I gotta say - that's darn impressive. I'm not aware of anything else that
>>>> >> maintains compatibility that long; am I missing anything?
>>>> >
>>>> > Nope. S/360 in it's various flavors is the only survivor of that era.
>>>>
>>>> Actually, that's not precisely true. The Burroughs B5500 still lives on
>>>> as the Unisys Clearpath systems, and still supports object files from
>>>> the 1960s.
>>>
>>> hmm, I actually have been in contact with some of those systems but had
>>> no idea they went back as far as 64.
>>
>> Here's a video from 1968 on the B6500. I worked at that plant in Pasadena
>> in the 1980s.
>>
>> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNBtjEBYFPk
>
> White shirts and ties, sideburns, and cigarettes in the office.

I have a similar video from the early 1970s about a building I came
to work in a few decades earlier. Same style.

Unfortunately, I do not think I can share it, there are probably
all sorts of legal obstacles, such as the personality rights of
the persons who are shown working in it.
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