on 5/29/05 8:45 PM, Art Celestini at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Probably the biggest customer of this type is the US Government, which > includes all of the branches of the Military. Usually, funds are > allocated to setup a new system that cover (1) the initial cost of the > equipment and software and (2) an (adjustable) maintenance budget for > both thereafter. >---------------SNIP---------------
Art, I was in Germany in Army in the early 70's and we were lucky to have 2 mod 50's and 2 mod 30's. In the far reaches there were (IIRC) still UNIVAC 1105's. We were a HQ so we had the "goodies". Before I showed up the unit had (well actiually the entire US Army had been kicked out of France) and there they had 7090's (I THINK my memory can't be trusted on that).. Indeed the "one time" set up was as you suggested was ONE TIME. IIRC we were the only MFT shop in Germany (at least in the Army). There were several dos places for payroll (I think). The civilians that ran the place made a stab at becoming the "world data center". They lost out to dos . I think (rumor) the army decided to go VM (running dos) and all the work that had been done was lost. I never did hear (nor cared) what happened to the UNIVAC machines. Knowing the army they are still running them. I was one of the tech support people for much of the issues. While it wasn't state of the art they were doing some TP (BTAM of 2260's) the batch processing was the center stage. Trying to get money for anything was always a pain. Our GS18 was always taking off to DC to lobby for funds. I can only guess what the army is like now days. But as you indicated (I think) things haven't changed in all this time. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
