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] writes: > Due to a little interruption called Viet Nam didn't actually start > twiddling bits until December 73. in the early 80s, i sponsored a number of Boyd briefings inside the company ... some of my past postings mentioning Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd and numerous URLs from around the WEB mentioning Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html#boyd2 various of his biographies mention that he ran NKP in Thailand. the summer of '69 (between semesters), I was con'ed into being full-time employee at Boeing, helping setup new dataprocessing for recently formed BCS (earlier in the spring, I had been con'ed into teaching a 40hr computer class to BCS technical staff during spring break). For a long time, I thought that the Renton datacenter was one of the largest in the world ... however there was some rumor that NKP may have been larger (one of the biographies mentions that NKP represented a $2.5B windfall to IBM). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
