[email protected] (Tom Marchant) writes: > And in another post he mentioned MTS (Michigan Terminal System), > written to run on the System/360 model 67. > > In MTS the terminal driver was called TSFO. I've been told that its > name was an acronym for Twenty Seven Forty One. > > How about that for some worthless trivia?
re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#20 Teletypewriter Model 33 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2013l.html#21 Teletypewriter Model 33 even more trivia .... there has some recent discussion about ntp ... person responsible for ntp ... earlier at michigan & MTS http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery8.html and involved in DEC-based termainal controller http://www.eecis.udel.edu/~mills/gallery/gallery7.html some umich mts pages gone 404 but live on at wayback machine http://web.archive.org/web/20050212073808/www.itd.umich.edu/~doc/Digest/0596/feat01.html http://web.archive.org/web/20050212073808/www.itd.umich.edu/~doc/Digest/0596/feat02.html http://web.archive.org/web/20050212183905/www.itd.umich.edu/~doc/Digest/0596/feat03.html One of barriers to entry for Amdahl in the 70s was need for IBM system support ... so Amdahl saw a lot of uptake from the MTS community (which didn't need IBM system support). Then there appeared a very large east coast financial "true blue" firm with huge football fields of IBM mainframes ... was indicating it was going to be the first "true blue" commercial firm to install Amdahl machine. I was quite familar with the customer and was asked to go onsite for six months ... as possible way of convincing customer to cancel the order. However, the customer had been horribly offended by the branch manager ... and was going to install the Amdahl machine regardless ... and my role onsite was pure obfuscation and misdirection. I refused to go, giving the reason. I was told I had to do it anyway or I could kiss goodby to any career in the company ... because the branch manager was good sailing buddy of the CEO and this would ruin his career (and the CEO would hold it against me). Note this goes along with the description of what happened to corporate culture with the failure of Future System effort ... which was only a year or two earlier. http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#futuresys "Computer Wars: The Post-IBM World" Ferguson & Morris: ... and perhaps most damaging, the old culture under Watson Snr and Jr of free and vigorous debate was replaced with sycophancy and make no waves under Opel and Akers. It's claimed that thereafter, IBM lived in the shadow of defeat ... and: But because of the heavy investment of face by the top management, F/S took years to kill, although its wrongheadedness was obvious from the very outset. "For the first time, during F/S, outspoken criticism became politically dangerous," recalls a former top executive. ... snip ... thats beside some of the blame for the rise of clone controllers -- 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
