On Fri, 24 Feb 2017 03:04:27 -0600, Bruce Hewson wrote: >FACOM ( which I understood to be Fujitsu Australia Company)
I remember it the same, or at least similar. Fujitsu owned nearly 50% of Amdahl, having invested in the development of the first Amdahl machines. And FACOM distributed Amdahl machines in Australia, and perhaps other places. My understanding was that Fujitsu had a nearly identical machine as well. And an Australian colleague who I met at Amdahl headquarters in Sunnyvale told me how they pronounced FACOM. In the US, we pronounced it FAY-com. He pronounced it quite differently. Fujitsu America is now headquartered at the old Amdahl headquarters at 1250 E. Arques in Sunnyvale, CA. And I found this interesting article from 1981: http://www.nytimes.com/1981/06/30/business/compuetrs-here-comes-fujitsu.html -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
