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The End of an Era was Photographed

    

The End of an Era was Photographed

By Claudia Lynch, Benchmarks Online Editor; Photos by Sandy Burke, Manager, Support Services Help Desk

IBM 360/50 Console

* IBM 360/50 console -- Purchased in 1970, the IBM 360/50 CPU was acquired to support academic and administrative computing. The original configuration of the 360/50 was one multiplexor channel, one selector channel, 256K core memory, a 1403 line printer, a 2540 card reader/punch, three 30KB tape drives, and five 2314 single density disk drives. The original operating system was OS/MFT/HASP supporting a maximum of three user partitions.

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