[email protected] (Clem Clarke) writes: > When the first IBM 65 was wheeled into Shell Oil Melbourne, I think it > had 256K of memory. And I believe it did cost a million or so. Of > course, it was made from core memory with real wires. Very expensive > to thread those wires, I suspect!!!
When I was still undergraduate in the 60s ... I got dragged into Boeing for the summer to work on what would become Boeing Computer Services (moving all dataprocessing into separate business unit ... improving ability to monetize computer operations ... including offering computer services to non-Boeing entities). At the time, I thought Renton datacenter was largest in the world ... supposedly having something like $300M in 360 equipment ... that summer there were constantly bits and pieces of several 360/65s in the hallways queued up for installation in the datacenter. Later I would sponsor Boyd's briefings at IBM. Various of his biographies mention him doing stint in charge of spook base (about the same time I was at Boeing) ... claiming it to be a $2.5B windfall for IBM (nearly ten times renton). Boyd would comment that the datacenter was the largest air-conditioned bldg in that part of the world. This account of spook base only goes into a little bit of the datacenter operation. http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
