[cctalk] Re: The Atomic Energy Commission [was Re: Re: Odd IBM mass storage systems]
On 2024-04-12 7:09 p.m., Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:28:34 -0300 From: Paul Berger via cctalk The 1360 was apparently developed at the request to Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), I would guess a forerunner of the DOE. There where apparently only 5 built 3 for the AEC and 2 for the NSA. The United States Atomic Energy Commission was superseded by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission in the 1970s. The Department of Energy is not the same thing at all. Rich The Wikipedia article on Department of Energy (DOE) suggests that in 1974 the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) was split into two organizations the Nuclear Regulatory Commision (NRC) and the other for energy research and development and I believe this is what is now known as the DOE. I book I found information on the IBM 1360 indicates 3 where sold to the AEC and one was installed at Livermore and another at Los Alamos both of which I am pretty sure are DOE facilities now. So it would seem that the AEC was the ancestor for both the DOE and the NRC. Paul.
[cctalk] Re: The Atomic Energy Commission [was Re: Re: Odd IBM mass storage systems]
On Fri, 2024-04-12 at 18:09 -0400, Rich Alderson via cctalk wrote: > > Date: Fri, 12 Apr 2024 15:28:34 -0300From: Paul Berger via cctalk < > > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > > The 1360 was apparently developed at the request to Atomic Energy > > Commission(AEC), I would guess a forerunner of the DOE. There > > where apparently only5 built 3 for the AEC and 2 for the NSA. > > The United States Atomic Energy Commission was superseded by the > NuclearRegulatory Commission in the 1970s. The Department of Energy > is not the samething at all. > Rich AEC was split up into NRC, mostly now composed of attorneys, gynecologists, architects, and theologians, who see it as their duty to suppress nuclear power, and (initially) ERDA, or Energy Research and Development Agency. ERDA became DoE. So DoE is, along with NRC, a descendant of AEC.
