> On Jun 30, 2020, at 7:38 PM, Jon Elson via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org>
> wrote:
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>> On 30/06/2020 16:44, Kyle Owen via cctalk wrote:
>>> Happy birthday to the 370! Looks like it was released to the press on 30
>>> June 1970.
>>>
>>> https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_PR370.html
>>>
> Well, actually, IBM released the first 370 in 1968, only they didn't want to
> tell anybody too soon.
> So, they camouflaged it as a new 360 model, the /85, ...
That's interesting.
DEC at one point used that same number for the VAX-11/780. I once at DECUS was
shown a secret document which was the instruction list (similar in form to the
way it appeared on the "VAX code card"). The document described it as being
for the PDP-11/85.
I think that was at DECUS Chicago, 1977 perhaps, and I think the person who
showed it to me was the attendee from Oregon Museum of Science and Industry
(OMSI -- which later became a company with the same initials but a different
name). I never saw anything more along those lines until the official
announcement with the real name, but I'm pretty sure about that memory.
paul
