On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Mike Hicks wrote:

> David Dyer-Bennet <dd-b at dd-b.net> wrote:
> >
> > Robert Leduc <robertl at ccbr.umn.edu> writes:
> > > 
> > > I'm old enough to ask if you mean the 386 Intel chip or
> > > the old IBM 386 mainframe.
> > 
> > That's too old for me.  386?  I know of the 360 and 370, of course.
> > Descendants, a couple of generations later, of the 1401 I programmed
> > in my first paid programming job.
> 
> There were the System/36 and the System/38.  Is there some strange
> concatenation you're coming up with?
> 
> -- 

Probably.  It's hard for me to keep all of these numbers
straight in my dotage.

R