From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: clemc at ccc.com (Clem Cole) Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2020 09:26:05 -0500 Subject: [COFF] Daisy wheel printers (was: [TUHS] The Elements Of Style: UNIX As Literature) In-Reply-To: <20201109043619.GO99027@eureka.lemis.com> References: <20201106014109.GP26296@mcvoy.com> <175409f6-af94-601e-3db3-a5af5d7f64d0@gmail.com> <20201106225825.GE99027@eureka.lemis.com> <20201109043619.GO99027@eureka.lemis.com> Message-ID: On Sun, Nov 8, 2020 at 11:36 PM Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > The golfball console for the /360 was much earlier than that, like the /360 > itself. > Hmmm, I think what I said is correct. The S/360 system was released in 1964. My friend Russ Roebling (360/50 chief designer ) once told me the console came from the office products (typewriter) division. I wish I could remember the story he told me, but IIRC it was something WRT to politics inside of IBM and ensuring the console device and the 360's launch between the divisions. [Just like every large firm I have worked, I'm not really surprised to hear that divisional fiefdoms were rampant at IBM in those days, too]. I'm fairly sure that the Selectric (I) was early1960s (I think 61/62). I just don't remember the model number of the S/360's console (every device at IBM had numeric names), your memory is likely that the number was 7xy. But as I said, I'm fair sure that the guts of the console were based on the Selectric's design. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: