[email protected] (Vernooij, Kees - KLM , ITOPT1) writes: > It sounds like when I started my job, with SVS on 370/158-168 > machines. When during IBM courses the teacher asked what we systems we > were using and I said we also had 2 360/65's running, everybody turned > to see where I came from. After a few times, I decided to skip these > machines.
when I was undergraduate, the univ. hired me fulltime to be responsible for IBM production mainframe systems. Then Boeing hired me to help with the formation of Boeing Computer Services (one of the first half dozen employees; consolidate all dataprocessing in independent business unit to help monetize the investment, even offering services to non-Boeing entities). I thought that the Renton datacenter was possibly the largest in the world ... at the time 360/65s were arriving faster than they could be installed (boxes consantly staged in the hallways around the machine room). There was also plans to replicate Renton datacenter at the new 747 plant up in Everett (disaster scenario where Mt. Rainier heats up and mudslide takes out Renton datacenter. 747#3 was flying the skies of seattle getting FAA flt. certification. Tour of the 747 passenger mockup included statement that there would be so many passengers on 747, that it would never be served by fewer than four jetways (how many people have been on 747 that were even served by 4 jetways?) Much later I sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and he would refer to being put in charge of "spook base" (possibly as punishment because he would talk about constantly claiming that it wouldn't work) about the time I was at Boeing. One of his biographies claims that "spook base" was $2.5B windfall for IBM (approx ten times the late 60s estimate of mainframe computers in Renton datacenter), "spook base" reference gone 404, but lives on at wayback machine ... including drones: http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html a little other Boyd drift: IBM revenue has fallen for 20 quarters -- but it used to run its business very differently http://www.businessinsider.com/ibm-corporate-america-history-2017-4 In the 80s, Boyd would include in briefings that former military officers were starting to contaminate US corporate culture. The issue was that officers had been indoctrinated in rigid, top-down, command&control with only those at the very top knew what they were doing. However, about the same time, articles were starting to appear that MBAs, with myopic focus on quarterly numbers were starting to destroy US businesses. Then there is this recent article: Harvard Business School and the Propagation of Immoral Profit Strategies http://www.newsweek.com/2017/04/14/harvard-business-school-financial-crisis-economics-578378.html past posts and URLs from the WEB referencing Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- 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
