bbreynolds <[email protected]> writes: > Was that a component which was shared by the 3033? Something > unique to the the 4341? I know that IBM's internal politics were > sometimes off the wall, but that folklore seems extreme.
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#87 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#88 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#96 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#97 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010b.html#98 "The Naked Mainframe" (Forbes Security Article) Really long email ... heavily edited. Mostly trip report about extended east coast trip hitting several places. Date: 04/29/79 16:39:03 From: wheeler << lots & lots of stuff snipped >> While I was in Endicott, I think I talked them into putting me on the distribution list for VM functional spec. documents. After the visit to Endicott, we went by Cornell Univ. for an afternoon/evening. They had a number of interesting things to say. We have talked before about doing a joint study with them on their mini-disk manager. They finally asked xxxxx about it at the last Share meeting. He hemmed and hawed around for a long time not sounding very hopeful and finally said any such undertaking has to be approved by YYYYY. AAAAAA was also there giving a seminar for a week or 2. They had a funny story to tell. On the 1st day AAAAA had some not very complimentary things to say about Cornell's comp. science department. They took him aside at lunch and told him that wasn't exactly the correct thing to do. He apparently held his tongue for a whole week. Finally he had the opportunity to state that if all computers at Cornell were destroyed the computer science department would never know about it. After Cornell we went by Kingston and then POK. In both Endicott and POK had some very interesting discussions about confidential stuff that is going on. In Endicott especially, there was even a hardware modification design session which I think we work some stuff out. Finally found out what *head-of-POK* was going to do about the 4341. I all along thot he would force Endicott into slowing the machine down. I guess he couldn't come with a way. He did come up with something that is probably even more effective tho. He somehow arraigned for the East Fishkill plant to cut their hardware output allocation to Endicott in half. There were comments that *head-of-POK* was called several choice names. Endicott still may win tho. << lots & lots of stuff snipped >> ... snip ... Had pretty close working relationship with Cornell over the years, for other drift when we were ramping up to do the NSFNET backbone (before internal politics shut us down) ... Cornell was one of the players; old email reference http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#email860505 in this post http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006u.html#56 Ranking of non-IBM mainframe builders? misc. old NSFNET-related email http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#nsfnet tcp/ip is the technology basis for the modern internet but NSFNET backbone was the operational basis for the modern internet (and CIX was the business basis for the modern internet). The director of NSF attempted to help out writing a letter to couple people in the corporation (copying the CEO), but that just aggravated the internal politics ... recent reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009q.html#42 The 50th Anniversary of the Legendary IBM 1401 -- 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
