Anne & Lynn Wheeler wrote:
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
The ones that I saw were 360/30s. I understand there were a few
360/40s. The first one that I saw was in Vietnam in 1966. I later
worked for a Sergeant that had worked on the prototypes some place in
New England.
The CPU and memory along with the 2540(?) and console were in one
trailer. The disk (2314s) in a second and maybe third, and the tape
drives in another trailer. There was also a generator trailer.
Lloyd
... 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
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