[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> 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

re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013c.html#90 Query for Destination z article -- 
mainframes back to the future
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#0 Query for Destination z article -- 
mainframes back to the future
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013d.html#2 Query for Destination z article -- 
mainframes back to the future

in 1969 dollars ... about 7 times that for 2012 dollars ... $2.1B for
renton data center and about $17B for spook base.

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