My uncles dairy had a datamaster in a back office that they used for the books, etc. I wonder what happened that that, it's no doubt stuffed into some haybarn loft.
My uncle had a business with an IBM minicomputer: a System/36. It was the size of a large freezer. It also used 8" floppies! It took a "magazine" of 10x 8" floppies and could swap between them. It looked like the system in the top photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36
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Not to discount the awesomeness of the others, but that's a real prize. Talk about a strange artifact of its time and place!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/23_Datamaster
My uncles dairy had a datamaster in a back office that they used for the books, etc. I wonder what happened that that, it's no doubt stuffed into some haybarn loft.
8 inch floppies! wow.
My uncle had a business with an IBM minicomputer: a System/36. It was the size of a large freezer. It also used 8" floppies! It took a "magazine" of 10x 8" floppies and could swap between them. It looked like the system in the top photo here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/36
Yeah, that's extremely cool. The wiki page had me at:
The Datamaster was IBM's only 8-bit microcomputer and one of the few to use the EBCDIC encoding.
The machine came with a few new boxes of 8" still in the cellophane.