LOU wrote on Jul 10^th, 2011 at 6:59pm:

I worked an IBM-360 with a two foot hard drive and punch cards to load the wind data to produce one of the first computer generated flight plans. The IBM-360 was state-of-the-art in the mid 60's, today you would fall off your chair laughing if you could see it. Lou

You were lucky to use the 360. In the late 60s' I was working for IBM as an accountant in the Federal System Center in Gaithersburg, MD. The Accounting Department was relegated to using a IBM 1411. It looked like a tall refrigerator. The 360 was resereved for customers only. The 1411 was for company use.

Michael Cubine