re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#29 45 years of Mainframe http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#30 45 years of Mainframe
a little x-over from this thread http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#18 as mentioned in the above ... as undergraduate, I had done a lot of work on os/360 and cp67 ... made presentation on some of the work at aug68 share meeting in boston. also was involved in univ. clone controller project. also, jun68, science center had one week cp67 class held at Beverley hills hilton(?). the friday before the class, one of the people that was to teach much of the class, gave notice that they were leaving for a new (virtual machine based) commercial time-sharing service bureau. When I show up for the class ... I was asked if I would teach part of it. spring break '69, i got talked into giving one week class for the boeing ibmers and the growing technical staff for the emerging boeing computer system. summer of '69, i was talked into spending at boeing ... setting up cp67 system (part of boeing computer system also offering computer services outside boeing). would periodically visit renton data center ... massive multiple football fields ... they had at least one 360/75 (it had black rope around the perimeter and there was black cloth that was pulled down over the front panel and 1403 windows had black cloth ... when running classified work) ... but the main workhorse was 360/65s ... the place was full of them. They pointed out that 360/65s were arriving so fast that summer, they constantly had pieces of two or three of the systems staged in the hallways ... waiting to be installed on the floor. I considered that the largest datacenter I had ever been in (several hundred millions in ibm 360s, although it was being partially duplicated at 747 plant in everett; part of everett datacenter was disaster planning; renton was in the path of potential massive mudslide if Mt. Rainier was to warm up). Later I would sponsor John Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and he would make some mention having done a year stint in 1970 running "spook base". Later one of John's biographies mentions that "spook base" was $2.5B windfall for IBM. By the time John was buried at Arlington ... the USAF had somewhat disowned him ... but he had been adopted by the Marines (and his effects and papers went to Quantico). Since he died, the USAF has somewhat acknowledged him; reference to dedication of Boyd Hall at USAF Weapons School, Nellis Air Force Base, 1999. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2000e.html#35 and reference to SECDEF lecture at USAF academy earlier this month (that mentions Boyd) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010h.html#20 misc. past posts & URLs mentioning Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- 42yrs 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
