Man, probably ...remember the lunar lander had was it 8 or 16k Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Feb 12, 2012, at 1:39 PM, Dave Day <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
