We have what was your first computer - now, what was your first mainframe?

[Rabrrrrrr]

Mine was the PDP-11, soon replaced with the VAX 11/780.


PDP-11

http://muse.linuxmafia.org/lost+found/richie-n-thompson-pdp-11.jpg


VAX 11/780






And then that was it - soon after, using mainframes died, because PC networking came into the fold.

[no name no slogan]

1. Technically, those are all "minis"

The PDP-11 is/was considered a minicomputer.

If you're talking big iron, you're talking the IBM System 360:



Of course, that was miniscule when compared to the Enterprise System/9000:


Now THAT's a mainframe

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I'll be darned - though they are "minis", I thought they still came

in under the category of mainframe.

learn something new every day! Thanks!

[no name no slogan]

4. I think you are correct

compared to the one-space blade servers of today, the "minis" are behemoths! :hi:

And strangely, they usually run the same Unix (or Unix-like) OS. Hmm...

[Orsino]

2. An IBM 1170, ca. 1977 n/t

[edbermac]

5. HAL 9000

Look Rabrrrrrr, I can see you're really upset about this. I honestly think you ought to sit down calmly, take a stress pill and think things over.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

6. :cough: dork :cough:

:evilgrin: