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IBM commercial equipment

Supporting Skylab
 
 
IBM System/360 Model 75Js were installed in Goddard and Houston in 1968 to support the Apollo program. The same installations also monitored the Skylab mission. The specific line up of IBM equipment at Houston included:

CPUs 5 System/360 Model 75J
  10 Printer/Keyboard
Tapes 32 2401 Magnetic Tape Unit
  10 2403 Magnetic Tape Units & Control
Card Readers 7 2540 Card Read Punch
Printers 9 1403 Printer
  6 1443 Printer
Channel 6 2870 Multiplexor Channel
  5 2860 Selector Channel
  8 2821 Control Unit
Terminals 9 2701 Data Adapter Unit
  2 2702 Transmission Control
  13 2260 Display Station
  4 2848 Display Control
Storage 20 2365 Processor Storage Unit
  9 2361 Core Storage
 
 
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