IBM 1130


 
 

The IBM 1130 Computing System was introduced in 1965. It was IBM's least-expensive computer to date, and was aimed at price-sensitive, computing-intensive technical markets like education and engineering. The IBM 1800 was a process control variant of the 1130 with two extra instructions (CMP and DCM) and extra I/O capabilities.

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The 1130 became quite popular, and the 1130 and its non-IBM clones gave many people their first feel of "personal computing." Though its price-performance ratio was good and it notably included inexpensive disk storage, it otherwise broke no new ground technically. The 1130 holds a place in computing history primarily because of the fondness its former users hold for it.


 

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Technician Manipulating 1 of Hundreds of Dials on Panel of IBM's Room Size Eniac Computer
Technician Manipulating 1 of Hundreds of Dials on Panel of IBM's Room Size Eniac Computer

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Introduction
Description
IBM 1130 Models
Chronology
Trivia
Instruction set overview
 
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I/O (1) - Instructions (1) - The Big Blue (1) - Big Blue (1) - Process control (1) - IBM (1) - 1965 (1) - IBM 1800 (1) - Computer (1) -
 

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