Bruce
This reminds me of an IBM event for technical folk held in Madrid in 1971.
One of the presentations was someone from a big UK bank who defended IBM
having made the 155 and 165 available and relatively shortly afterwards
having announced the 158 and 168 - together with the relatively expensive
DAT box extension to the 155 and 165. I hope I'm remembering the details
about right.
I heard about this only second-hand but I believe the argument was that IBM
was right to offer the enhanced performance of the 155 and 165 as soon as it
could in spite of the fact that it knew that the virtual storage models were
well advanced in development. I guess there was a shadow of the "it's
illegal to preannounce" principle hanging over this.
Why did I hear about this only second-hand. Well, the Prado and sites such
as the Plaza Major were far more interesting!
Chris Mason
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Black" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 6:41 PM
Subject: Re: IBM obsoleting mainframe hardware
I worked for one company which had just signed a 7 year lease on a 370/155
without the DAT hardware. They wanted me to upgrade from DOS to MVS, so
they had to pop for the DAT box and also extra memory (to the max of
2MB!!!) to get MVS to work. The guy who negotiated the lease was gone soon
after
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Bruce Black
Senior Software Developer
Innovation Data Processing
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