Talk:IBM 308X

Neither of the photographs are pertinent to the IBM 308X series
The TROS predated the 308X by 14 years, as is clearly visible in the picture. The SLT is from a Model 1800, which predated the 308X by 16 years (see: []) — Preceding unsigned comment added by Tsgsh (talk • contribs) 15:11, 28 October 2019 (UTC)


 * A photo of a horse pulling a wagon in an article about the unit of measure called horsepower (or similarly a candle to adorn something about candlepower) is part of why some chefs use multi-color pasta. The wording on the photos show that the items are illustrative of the past: they're saying that 308X technology was successor to these yester-year items. Pi314m (talk) 00:10, 7 November 2019 (UTC)


 * Its technology is the successor to a number of technologies; the relevance of TROS to a system using semiconductor RAM for its microcode, or SLT circuits to a system using LSI, seems no clearer to me than the relevance of vacuum tubes from an IBM 701 or transistors from an IBM 7090 to the latter system.


 * This is IBM 308X, not History of computing hardware (1960s–present) - the discussion of differences between it and its predecessor, the IBM 3033, in IBM 308X makes sense, but comparing with mid-1960's technology from at least three System/3x0 generations back (S/360 -> S/370 Model 1xx -> 303X -> 308X) doesn't seem to add much of use in an article about this particular line of computers, as opposed to a general history of computing, IBM mainframes, or System/3x0 mainframes (x = 10 for z/Architecture :-)). Guy Harris (talk) 00:30, 7 November 2019 (UTC)