[email protected] (Bonno, Tuco) writes: > Graduate, College of Conflict Management; > University of SouthEast Asia; > "I partied on the Ho Chi Minh Trail - tiến lên !! "
Friday PoOps trivia ... was one of the first mainstream IBM pubs to move to cp67/cms script. The motivation was PoOps was a subset of the internal architecture "redbook" (for the red 3ring binder that it was distributed in). With cms script command line option, could print either the full architecture "redbook" ... or just the subset PoOps sections. other Friday trivia http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011b.html#7 $2.5B "windfall" for IBM (something over $17B in today's dollars) ... would have significantly helped to cover the reported $1b spent on the (failed) Future system effort. I had sponsored Boyd's briefings at IBM ... and some of his biographies mentioned him doing stint in charge of "spook base" and IBM's $2.5B windfall. Longer item on "Boeing Plant 2" referencing helping with BCS and IBM mainframes (only couple hundred million in renton datacenter) about time Boyd was command "spook base" http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010q.html#59 old item with lots of detail about spook base (including operation having largest bldg in the region) ... gone 404 ... but lives on at wayback machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html above ("Other High Technology Assets") mentions 1130/2250s, 360/50, 360/65s & 2305s and cost(?) $1billion a year to operate. 2250M1 were direct mainframe channel attach ... as undergraduate at univ. I had written driver to interface cp67/cms editor to 2250M1 on the 360/67. "2250M4" was the 1130/2250 combination (2250M1 & 2250M4 were approx. same price). 2301 were fixed-head drum. it was similar to 2303 fixed-head drum ... but transferred data over four heads in parallel ... getting over mbyte transfer rate ... and frequently found as paging devices on 360/67 (but had only 4mbyte capacity). Later 2305s (fixed head disk) with 12mbyte capacity, were common on 370. If NKP had 2305s, they would have been some of the earliest. Boyd would relate about frequently telling everybody about how it wouldn't work (in part because other things had similar signatures). other refs: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakhon_Phanom_Royal_Thai_Navy_Base http://aircommandoman.tripod.com/ other refs to Boyd http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subboyd.html -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
