In a message dated 9/18/2005 5:56:30 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Release 1 of VS2 (SVS- Single Virtual Storage) still used the old OS/360 Reader >and Writer as the "Type I" support. HASP and ASP were available, as >they had been, as Type II support. In MVT days, the last version of HASP from IBM was HASP 3. When SVS was shipped, the HASP that came with it was called HASP 4. HASP = Houston Automatic Spooling Program; SPOOL = Simultaneous Peripheral Operations OnLine. Houston = IBM's large Federal Systems contingent at the Manned Spacecraft Center near Houston in the 1960s in support of Project Apollo, where HASP was developed by IBMers Tom Simpson, Bob Crabtree, et al. I think there were et al. there; there were definitely et al. later on when HASP became so popular that IBM had to give serious support to that Type 3 program, meaning it was not of official System Control Program quality. One of the et al. people was Dick Hitt, who played the piano at the SHARE singalongs at the Thursday night SCIDS session until the Spring, 1981 SHARE when he was no longer attending SHARE. The singalong has for a very long time been officially sponsored by the JES2 project within SHARE. When Hitt stopped attending, a new operator for the HASP model 88 was needed. I became one of the two simultaneous piano players at that SHARE, along with Wanda Reynolds who did the heavy lifting. Then Ann Caluori began playing piano at the next SHARE (AUG 1981). Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
