From: Chuck Guzis Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:51 PM > On 03/02/2016 09:56 PM, Jason T wrote:
>> That would be the Illinois Institute of Technology and their "Remote >> User Shared Hardware" time-sharing scheme on the IBM 360, circa July >> 1967. Check out the prices - even per-minute pricing on core! >> http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/IIT > That'd be IITRI, IIT's Research Institute, not IIT Proper (the school), > who used a 360/40 to run their student timesharing (remote ASR33 TTYs) > in a DOS/360 foreground partition implementing the IITRAN language. > IIRC, it was a 128K machine. I don't recall what was on IITRI's 360/50. > Background was also available for student use via a 2501 card reader. Wow. I used that background partition! When I took "Computer Math" (FORTRAN IV on a 1401) the latter half of my senior year in high school, several of my friends from the Chess Club were taking Saturday Extension courses in PL/1 and COBOL at IIT. (They had taken the FORTRAN class in the autumn semester.) I read through the programmed instruction texts for both languages and did all my FORTRAN assignments in all three; different friends allowed me to piggyback on their funny money allocations so I could get my code run. One of my friends was fascinated by IITRAN, too. Rich Rich Alderson Vintage Computing Sr. Systems Engineer Living Computer Museum 2245 1st Avenue S Seattle, WA 98134 mailto:ri...@livingcomputermuseum.org http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
