...and the /20 was developed at Sindelfingen, which was one reason it was the redheaded stepchild (but very popular nonetheless, due to its lower cost).
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 6:01 AM, Camiel Vanderhoeven <iamcam...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, <ste...@malikoff.com> wrote: > > Camiel said: > >> IBM UK Laboratories in Hursley was a software facility, the model 40 was > >> developed in Poughkeepsie, like the others. Secondary production sites > were > >> in Mainz, Germany, and Japan. > > > > Yes, the wiki does say that, but I am sure Hursley was involved in > designing > > hardware as well, for instance TROS. This PDF by Pugh states that a team > at Hursley > > were designing the Model 40: > http://ed-thelen.org/Pugh-Technology_Transfer.pdf > > As a CE, my dad was there to study the hardware only. > > You're quite right, I was wrong. Both hardware and software > development took place at Hursley. According to Pugh, Johnson, and > Palmer's "IBM's 360 and early 370 systems", the /30 (then called NPL > 101) was developed at Endicott, the /40 (NPL 250) at Hursley, and the > larger models at Poughkeepsie. > -- Ian S. King, MSIS, MSCS, Ph.D. Candidate The Information School <http://ischool.uw.edu> Dissertation: "Why the Conversation Mattered: Constructing a Sociotechnical Narrative Through a Design Lens Archivist, Voices From the Rwanda Tribunal <http://tribunalvoices.org> Value Sensitive Design Research Lab <http://vsdesign.org> University of Washington There is an old Vulcan saying: "Only Nixon could go to China."