All of the people entering the astronaut program now get an Ipod. :-P
On 2/12/2012 12:35 PM, Scott Ford wrote:
Very interesting , my late father had the option to see Houston Manned
Spacecraft Center in the 70s or 80s. He worked for Unisys and their systems at
that time were all Univac. Also around the same time Disneyworld was Unisys
also. He has the option to go ack stage there also..
Now NASA is removing their mainframes, what are the replacing them with ?
Sent from my iPad
Scott Ford
Senior Systems Engineer
www.identityforge.com
On Feb 12, 2012, at 9:29 AM, Matthew Donald<[email protected]> wrote:
This month marks the end of an era in NASA computing. Marshall Space
Flight Center powered down NASA’s last mainframe, the IBM Z9 Mainframe. For
my millennial readers, I suppose that I should define what a mainframe is.
Well, that’s easier said than done, but here goes -- It’s a big
computer that is known for being reliable, highly available, secure, and
powerful. They are best suited for applications that are more
transaction oriented and require a lot of input/output – that is, writing
or reading from data storage devices.
Read the full
article<http://blogs.nasa.gov/cm/blog/NASA-CIO-Blog/posts/post_1329017818806.html>[
blogs.nasa.gov]
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
