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Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s

From Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com>
Newsgroups alt.folklore.computers
Subject Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s
Date 2016-02-13 09:47 -0800
Organization Wheeler&Wheeler
Message-ID <87pow0zen7.fsf@garlic.com> (permalink)

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Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s -- in
pictures
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/gallery/2016/feb/13/future-women-the-bell-lab-computer-operators-of-the-1960s-in-pictures-women-in-computing

so picture is front panel of 360/50, not so large, largest memory size
was 512kb, so either description is wrong or they had some sort of
special add-on to get the other 512kb (IBM LCS 2361 came in 1mbyte
increments)

360-50 functional characteristic
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/funcChar/A22-6898-1_360-50_funcChar_1967.pdf

648MB ... would be three 8drive 2314 strings assuming 2314 drive is
27mbytes.

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Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-02-13 09:47 -0800
  Re: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 10:57 -0800
    Re: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s pechter@mongo.(none) (William Pechter) - 2016-02-13 19:29 +0000
    Re: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s "Charles Richmond" <numerist@aquaporin4.com> - 2016-02-15 18:10 -0600
  Re: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-02-13 11:56 -0800
    Re: Big computers, big hair: the women of Bell Labs in the 1960s hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-02-13 14:38 -0800

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