Shmuel, My late father was FE working on Univacs Solid State, Univacs answer to the IBM 650.. Man small world
Scott ford www.identityforge.com Tell me and I'll forget; show me and I may remember; involve me and I'll understand. - Chinese Proverb On Nov 27, 2012, at 9:46 AM, "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> wrote: > In > <CAE1XxDEwwmB66cYRBTYk5V=r=oojk6hjgrtq20oo+aybakg...@mail.gmail.com>, > on 11/26/2012 > at 11:24 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said: > >> When I began in this business "storage" mean only auxiliary|backing >> storage. Main storage was "memory", > > No. IBM was using the word "storage" for main memory in the 1950's, as > was UNIVAC. The nomenclature changed between vendors at the same date, > not as a function of time. A similar situation existed with > "biquinary". > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
