> which were opened for the system/360 project The East Fishkill, NY plant was specially built to manufacture Solid Logic Technology (SLT) modules for the System/360. At the time, this plant was considered "highly automated." I am not aware of any plants in the U.S. that were specifically built to make either System/360 processors themselves, nor any of the (mostly new) major peripherals used with them (initially, at least). IBM did announce plans for new plants in Raleigh, North Carolina and Boulder, Colorado. The Bolder plant was supposed to handle (some) tape drive and (final) memory manufacturing, but problems there ditched memory final assembly activities, so Boulder (then) became a tape plant. Memory manufacturing was moved (literally) to vendors in Japan and Taiwan who would find homeworkers to thread wire core planes by hand. This then enabled Kingston to concentrate on final assembly and it did not have to expand. The RTP plant went on to become the home of the 270x boxes, from whence BTAM and TCAM arose, and then we got the 370x and SNA and VTAM (much later). What actually happened for the most part is that existing plants expanded their capacity during the timeframe of initial System/360 deliveries, with the exception of Fishkill, Boulder, and RTP (NC). After that initial push, of course, plant _capacity_ did explode, but no complete plants specifically for S/360 processors came along [to my knowledge.]
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