Right. After all, the 370 was the machine series of the seventies.

Frankly, I have yet to read one of these Shark Tank stories that seemed like
more than an amusing fairy tale. I have only read a couple, but none of them
rang ver true.

Charles


-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Seymour J Metz
Sent: Wednesday, January 16, 2019 12:41 PM
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Subject: Re: Where's the fire? | Computerworld Shark Tank

"It's the late 1970s, and this data center has a high-performance IBM 360/75
mainframe that sports a massive 1 MB of core memory -- one of only four in
the world,"

I might believe late 1960s, but by the late 1970s the 360/75 was well and
truly obsolete and 1 MiB was nothing to brag about. We had 2 Mib at the
Technion in 1973, and I'm sure that places like NASA Goddard had more, to
say nothing of the tri-ASP 195 complex at Suiteland and the intelligence
facilities in Maryland and Virginia.

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