is this one of those "great savings" from someplace that hadn't upgraded their mainframe system in 20 years?
and I love this part: The last mainframe was an IBM model in place since 1997 1997, let's see, so we're talking either the 9021 family or the early generation cmos. yea, okay, I just answered the q -----Original Message----- >From: Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> >Sent: Oct 10, 2009 4:30 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000 > >The following message is a courtesy copy of an article >that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. > > >U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000 >http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100909-congress-mainframes.html?hpg1=bn > >from above: > >The U.S. House of Representatives has taken its last mainframe offline, >signaling the end of a computing era in Washington, D.C. > >... snip ... > >at one point congress and white house was using them for at least EMAIL >(PROFS). some of it possibly dates even back to: >http://www.nsa.gov/research/selinux/list-archive/0409/8362.shtml > >i was undergraduate in the 60s ... but doing lots of work on cp67 >... even getting requests from the vendor for specific kinds of >enhancements. I didn't learn about the above guys until much later >... but in retrospect, some of the change requests could be considered >of the kind that such customers would be interested in. > >later I got blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network in >the late 70s and early 80s (the internal network was larger than >the internet from just about the beginning until possibly some >late late '85 or early '86). > > >-- >40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO >Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
