[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. -- 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
