The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[email protected] (Lloyd Fuller) writes: > What do you mean Sun was the first? > > The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the > early 1960s - 40 years before Sun "thought" of the idea. The Army > even had those in Vietnam for the division data centers. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009r.html#12 Small Server Mob Advantage maybe mid-60s?? 360 announce 7apr64. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/360 360/30 FCS jun65, 360/40 FCS apr65 http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_FS360.html ... maybe a 1401? http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1401.html or 1620? http://www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PP1620.html there was recent celebration of 50th anniv. of 1401 at computer history museum ... there is also this article ... which includes comment from somebody mentioning working on a 1401 located in marine truck in vietnam (1967) http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/rebuilding-the-ibm-1401 I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM in the 80s. Boyd's biographies has him in 1970 doing a year stint in charge of "spook base" ... a $2.5B(!) windfall for IBM ... although even that was probably not enuf to offset the cost of the failed future system effort http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys and/or the resulting impact that the failure had on the corporate culture. misc. past posts mentioning Boyd: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd1 misc. URLs from around the web mentioning Boyd: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd2 -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
