One of the things that surfaced at the 30th anniversary party for VM in San Francisco was a miraculously intact copy of the original 1972 VM/370 sales presentation intended for explaining what benefit VM/370 had for customers. The presentation (a collection of 35mm slides and a presentation script in the original IBM cardboard storage box) was located in the papers of a recently deceased faculty member at Marist College, and was almost thrown out as trash.
By the grace of Harry and Martha at Marist College, the IBM Archives, and Scott Courtney's shiny new slide scanner, we've scanned the presentation slides, the presentation script, and a copy of the blue announcement letter and made them available on our WWW site. The URL is: http://sinenomine.net/photo.php?dir=photos/vm370&prefix=vm370 It's interesting in that pretty much everything in this presentation is still true and accurate about VM. Not bad for turning 30, hmm? Enjoy! -- db David Boyes Sine Nomine Associates (BTW, if you like the way the presentation images are displayed, this is a tool that Scott wrote and works for general collections of images and captions. It's nifty, open source and available from him for download. Joe Bob sez check it out.)
