edgould1...@comcast.net (Edward Gould) writes: > The latest buzz word is education on the computer. IBM tried that 40 > years ago and it was an abysmal failure. Pretty soon they are going to > make a pizza making MF. Now, how do you deliver a 20 ton computer > with a flat top to a neighborhood that has narrow streets?
prior to gov. legal action, IBM steep educational discount and there was IBM mainframes in lots of universities ... then with the 23June1969 unbundling announcement ... those educational discounts went away. past posts/refs http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/submain.html#unbundle recent post referencing ACIS http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2017j.html#76 A Computer That Never Was: the IBM 7095 with relaxing of gov. pressure in the early 80s, IBM tried to get back into educational market, setting up ACIS ... initially with $300M for giving away to educational institutions ... MIT Project Athena got $25M (jointly with another $25M from DEC), CMU got $50M for various andrew efforts (MACH, unix work-alike, camelot/encina ... unix transaction processing, andrew fileystems, etc) ... lots of other institutions. my brother was regional Apple marketing rep in this period (largest physical region in CONUS) with several univ. institutions. He would comment that he would fawn over any IBM coffee mugs at customer sites and say he liked them so much that he would be willing to trade two apple mugs for every IBM mug (selling appleII and MACs against IBM/PC). sometime earlier, IBM had 1500 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_1500 picture of my (future) wife ... she had job at the Naval academy in Annapolis, programming IBM 1500 courses (before she joined IBM) http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/1500.jpg 1500 installations, gone but lives on at wayback machine https://web.archive.org/web/20090604181740/http://www.uofaweb.ualberta.ca/educationhistory/IBM1500Systems_NorthAmerica.cfm -- virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
