On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, <ste...@malikoff.com> wrote: > Camiel said: >> IBM UK Laboratories in Hursley was a software facility, the model 40 was >> developed in Poughkeepsie, like the others. Secondary production sites were >> in Mainz, Germany, and Japan. > > Yes, the wiki does say that, but I am sure Hursley was involved in designing > hardware as well, for instance TROS. This PDF by Pugh states that a team at > Hursley > were designing the Model 40: http://ed-thelen.org/Pugh-Technology_Transfer.pdf > As a CE, my dad was there to study the hardware only.
You're quite right, I was wrong. Both hardware and software development took place at Hursley. According to Pugh, Johnson, and Palmer's "IBM's 360 and early 370 systems", the /30 (then called NPL 101) was developed at Endicott, the /40 (NPL 250) at Hursley, and the larger models at Poughkeepsie.