[email protected] (Anne & Lynn Wheeler) writes:
> not any I saw ... we use to feed 2741 terminals with greenbar paper
> reversed ... printing on the backside which was white.

HONE systems ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone

were setup shortly after 23Jun69 unbundling announcement ... some
past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle

to give branch office SEs place to practice with operating systems.

prior to unbundling, apprentice SEs could get training and experience as
part of large SE teams at customer location. after unbundling, SE time
was charge for ... and nobody could figure out how to not charge for the
apprentice SE time. HONE initially was several CP67 virtual machine
datacenters in the US with dialin from branch offices.

the science center ... some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech

ported apl\360 to cms for cms\apl. It included APIs for CMS system
services (like file i/o ... which didn't exist in apl\360) and allowed
apl workspace size to be as large as virtual memory (typical apl\360
workspace size was limited to 16kbytes) ... which really opened up APL
for real-world use (one of the remote users of cambridge system was
armonk business planners ... that loaded the most valuable corporate
data on the cambridge cp67 system ... all the detailed customer
information ... using APL for business modeling ... this required some
security considerations ... since cambridge also had students, staff,
professors use from local Boston/Cambridge univ).

HONE then started delivery APL-based sales&marketing support tools
... which eventually came to dominate all HONE use ... and the original
branch SE use quickly dwindled away.

In the mid-70s, the US HONE datacenters consolidated in bay area (and by
this time had moved from cp67 to vm370) ... trivia later new bldg.
would be built next door and Facebook moved in ... before moving across
town to the old SUN campus.

One of my hobbies was production systems for internal datacenters ...
one of my longtime customers was HONE ... not only US ... but US HONE
system was cloned at multiple locations around the world.

In any case, found in box ... 18May1977 printed output from HONE1 system
... the output is printed on the white reverse side of greenbar paper;
it is the RSCS RL3PLC15 manual as well as output of all the nodes on the
internal network. First part of the internal network output is box
diagram ... one box per node with printed lines for each network
connection (1403/3211 printer) ... followed by one line for each node
listing with node name, location on the network node "map", machine
model, operating system, and local contact number.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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