Lloyd >...> The US Army used 360/30 and 360/40s in 18-wheel trailers back in the early 1960s ...
That'll be the *late* '60s. > These were batch machines running DOS/VS. ... and it will have been DOS/360 not DOS/VS. "VS" did not burst onto the "360 GT" (370) commercial customer scene until 1972. Chris Mason On Mon, 7 Dec 2009 13:05:16 -0800, Lloyd Fuller <leful...@sbcglobal.net> wrote: >Mouse? the only stinking mouse was the one eating the punch cards! These were batch machines running DOS/VS. > >They did have lots of cable and the installations that I saw were REAL careful about what kind of traffic even came close to the trailers. In fact even foot traffic was discouraged! > >Lloyd > >--- On Mon, 12/7/09, Thompson, Steve <steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> wrote: > >> From: Thompson, Steve <steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> >> Subject: Re: "Portable" data centers (was RE: Small Server Mob Advantage) >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Date: Monday, December 7, 2009, 4:00 PM >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] >> On >> Behalf Of Lloyd Fuller >> Sent: Monday, December 07, 2009 2:57 PM >> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >> Subject: Re: "Portable" data centers (was RE: Small Server >> Mob >> Advantage) >> >> 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. >> >> Lloyd >> <snip> >> >> Yeah, and they had 600' of channel cables attached to a >> jeep to use as a >> mouse. >> >> Sorry, I just couldn't get this cartoon out of my mind of >> the original >> mouse... >> >> Regards, >> Steve Thompson ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
