[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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
