No kidding! Was Sun even "born" yet?
I started with my current employer in 1984. Couple of months later, we were putting in a new mainframe. A full sized 18 wheeler (probably a 65 footer) pulled up along side the building, along with another one with generators to run the mainframe in the first. Our data center was pretty small and in order to swap out the mainframe the workload was moved on to the machine in the truck while we did a push/pull in the data center. We ran the better part of a week like that, then we cut over to the new machine in the data c enter. Changed out the mainframe with only 2 IPLs worth of outage. Pretty fine. Not SUN , IBM. Linda Mooney ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lloyd Fuller" <leful...@sbcglobal.net> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Monday, December 7, 2009 5:42:57 PM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific Subject: Re: "Portable" data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) Howard Brazee wrote: > On 7 Dec 2009 13:01:33 -0800, steve_thomp...@stercomm.com (Thompson, > Steve) wrote: > >> What do you mean Sun was the first? >> >> The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the >> early 1960s - 40 years before Sun "thought" of the idea. The Army even >> had those in Vietnam for the division data centers. > > How big were those, compared to an iPod? > Let's put it this way: even Shrek could not have put it into a shirt pocket like I can mine. These were full 18wheeler trailers - 30 foot or maybe more? Lloyd ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
