New OS from IBM
Nov 18, 2022 09:48:42 #
bcplimpton
Loc: Southern New Jersey
TriX wrote:
This joke was making the rounds in IT in the 80s. For all their great contributions, IBM picked the losing technology a number of times. Like Beta, it was often superior technology, but the market thought otherwise: OS2 vs Windows, Token Ring vs Ethernet, SSA vs FibreChannel… I was there in ‘64, trained on the System 360 - their shiny new real computer (as opposed to a “business machine”).
I joined IBM in 1968 and was trained on the System 360. I also have the dubious honor of being the last group of hires to be trained on "the old gray iron" aka "unit record equipment" or card mulchers.
This was considered a joke within IBM but outside the company was often thought of as a critique of the "the IBM way is the only way" attitude especially as the calendar turned into the '90s and '00s.
Nov 18, 2022 10:37:29 #
Haha….. In 1985, I was probably still running MS-DOS 2.11 on my Heathkit Z-150 along with Multiplan and Word 1.0. And a stack of 5” 360k floppies.
Nov 18, 2022 13:41:10 #
TriX wrote:
Building on the worldwide success of OS2… (note the date)
Regardless of the rest of '1985' release, it may not be too long before the last item is required... However, I suspect we're already living in a virtual reality.
bwa
Nov 18, 2022 17:55:34 #
TheShoe
Loc: Lacey, WA
TriX wrote:
Building on the worldwide success of OS2… (note the date)
Fond memories, I remember seeing this when it was new. Yes, OS2 had Windows, and e-mail was via PROFS (later OfficeVision).
Nov 21, 2022 00:07:55 #
SyracuseOrange
Loc: Manlius,NY
[quote=lamiaceae]Wow, '64. . ...two years later I was working on the Apollo flight simulator to be used by the astronauts. I had exclusive access to one of the first IBM 360/65 computers delivered to Singer/Link as we developed the simulation of the on-board computer. It was programmed in Fortran to prove the algorithms before we reprogrammed it into assembly language to go into the computer used for the simulator. ... now that I think about that, it was a long time ago....
Nov 21, 2022 10:20:11 #
[quote=SyracuseOrange]
Wow, that was a big 360 - the first 4 we installed were two 20s, a 30 and a 40 if memory serves. It’s probably been close to 30 years since I was in the Singer Link facility in upstate NY - the one with the original Link trainer in the lobby. Are they still in business?
lamiaceae wrote:
Wow, '64. . ...two years later I was working on the Apollo flight simulator to be used by the astronauts. I had exclusive access to one of the first IBM 360/65 computers delivered to Singer/Link as we developed the simulation of the on-board computer. It was programmed in Fortran to prove the algorithms before we reprogrammed it into assembly language to go into the computer used for the simulator. ... now that I think about that, it was a long time ago....
Wow, that was a big 360 - the first 4 we installed were two 20s, a 30 and a 40 if memory serves. It’s probably been close to 30 years since I was in the Singer Link facility in upstate NY - the one with the original Link trainer in the lobby. Are they still in business?
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