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[ih] AT&T, carterfone, the 103, and why didnt BBSs start earlier?


Randy Bush wrote:
> ... an ibm lameframe, and there were only lameframes in '62,


Just within the IBM stable, in the early 60s, 7090s [1] were mainframes, but the 
1401 [2] and 1620 [3] definitely were not.

The 1620 introduced a lot of folk to computing.



d/

[1]  7090, size of large room: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7090>

[2]  1401, size of fridge: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1401>

[2]  1620, size of desk: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1620>
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   Dave Crocker
   Brandenburg InternetWorking
   bbiw.net