On Tue, 18 May 1999 14:11:04 -0400, Glenn Cole
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>
>The college I attended used an ibm 1130 as well.  IIRC, it has 8k of memory.
>But it must have been the fancy model; the OS was on disk (I don't know the
>size), so we did not have to include either the OS or the compiler in card
>form.
>
>I used FORTRAN, COBOL (no nested IF's allowed), and Assembly (which had all
>of 27 instructions).
>
>The school replaced the 1130 with the 3000, and after I graduated switched
>again to a VAX, leaving the 3000s on the administrative side.
>
>Don Seay, do you remember more details?  Did I remember correctly?
>
>--Glenn
>
IIRC, Glenn, YRC! 8K memory, OS on disk, plotter that drew with ball
point pens, card punch, some sort of disk array. The academic side was
still VAX a few years ago and as far as I know, the admins are still
3Ks with some 9Ks.

My favorite memory of the IBM 1130 was using Macro Assembler to write
an emulator of the HP 9100b programmable calculator. Each step of the
HP program corresponded to an assembler macro. Took about two boxes,
4,000 cards, to define the emulator in 80 or 100 macro instructions -
all IDed with macro name and sequenced to protect against spillage!