All about the IBM 1130 Computing System

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• recursivedoubts28 minutes ago
  I would love to see people start to move these simulators onto the web, <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infinitemac.org" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;infinitemac.org</a>, like, so that the systems were more accessible to casuals.<p>(I&#x27;ve built two online systems for teaching my students computing: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bcp.cs.montana.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;bcp.cs.montana.edu</a> and <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtmc.cs.montana.edu" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;mtmc.cs.montana.edu</a> w&#x2F;a similar vibe)
• iberator1 hour ago
  I always wondered what if time hardware development stopped in 1969: how far we couuld go with such machines with new fresh software? :)
  • dhosek52 minutes ago
    A lot of our software really depends on things like fast disks and significant memory. I think we might have ended up with the development of memory-constrained algorithms that don’t exist now, and computing would be very much a batch-mode endeavor rather than the interactive process we have now.