On 01/26/2017 06:49 PM, Eric Smith wrote: > IBM generally didn't consider a data processing system to have > "shipped" until it passed the field acceptance criteria, e.g., > assembled on-site and passed diagnostics. Perhaps the 7070 didn't > pass acceptance testing until April 1960?
Does IBM retain a corporate archivist on staff? That might be a resource. I do get the idea that the 7070, designed as a replacement for the 650, was a machine that IBM probably would like to forget. --Chuck
