Pound for pound the best mainframe

[Eudimorphodon]

I was reading a manual for the Whirlwind I the other day and was amused to discover that they called the structures that held the core memory (this was a 1956 manual, postdating the replacement of the original electrostatic tube memory) the “shower stalls”.

 

[mloewen]

I was reading a manual for the Whirlwind I the other day and was amused to discover that they called the structures that held the core memory (this was a 1956 manual, postdating the replacement of the original electrostatic tube memory) the “shower stalls”.

And here's one of them, in the MIT museum and its descendant from the SAGE system.

 

[kc5vdj]

Control Data still developed new CYBER series mainframes in the early to mid 80s. Last I worked on one was 1988.
The IBM 4300 was released in the early 80s. The 3090 mid to late 80s.
All these were physically large mainframes.

Actually into the 1990s for Cyber.

 

[oktology]

Pound for pound, how long is a piece of string?