On Thursday, 7 July 2016 at 2:53:00 pm UTC+10, Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
> NickB <nic...@hotmail.com> writes:
> > Thanks Dave,
> > I'm actually one of the (volunteer) curators of the Hursley museum.
> > We've been searching for one for some time now, but it seems that they
> > were all leased so when the customer no longer wanted them, they were
> > scrapped.
> >
> > We do however live in hope that one might have escaped, hence my post.
> IBM 3624
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_3624
>
> The IBM 3624 was a late 1970s second-generation automatic teller machine
> (ATM), a successor to the IBM 3614. Designed at the IBM Los Gatos lab,
> the IBM 3624, along with the later IBM 4732 model, was manufactured at
> IBM facilities in Charlotte, North Carolina and Havant, England until
> all operations were sold to Diebold, tied to the formation of the
> InterBold partnership between IBM and Diebold
>
> ... snip ...
>
> I had offices and labs for a time in Los Gatos lab (since been plowed
> under and sold off for a housing development) ... but it was after the
> 3614 time ... I did hear stories from some of the people that had been
> there.
>
> One of the projects that I had out at los gatos lab was some of
> high speed data transport ... some past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#hsdt
>
> IBM had put in collins digital radio (T3 microwave) between bldg 12 on
> the main plant site ... to repeater over the hill down to STL (since
> renamed silicon valley lab) and repeater above Los Gatos lab (and the
> hill above los gatos dump).
>
> HSDT put in 4.5M tdma satellite dish in the Los Gatos back parking lot
> another in in back lot behind IBM Yorktown research ... and a 7M dish in
> Austin.
>
> Los gatos had also done LSM (specialized chip design logic simulator
> that ran something like 50,000 times faster than 168-3 ... doing logic
> simulation) ... and Austin was shipping RIOS (RS/6000) chip logic design
> to Los Gatos for validation. some RISC/ROMP/RIOS/etc past posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#801
>
> after I left IBM ... was involved in designing electronic payment
> transaction protocols and chipcards ... recent mention
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2016e.html#6 Is it a lost cause?
>
> reference to nacha/star did pilot of part of one of the protocols;
> 23july2001 (gone 404 but lives on at wayback machine)
> http://web.archive.org/web/20070706004855/http://internetcouncil.nacha.org/News/news.html
>
> other posts
> http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subpubkey.html#x959
>
> --
> virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970
Hi
We have been storing an old IBM 3624 for nearly 30 years in the hope some one might one days be interested.