The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> writes: > I had gotten blamed for computer conferencing on the internal network in > the late 70s and early 80s. internal network was larger than > arpanet/internet from just about the beginning until possibly sometime > late 85 or early 86 ... some past posts > http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subnetwork.html#internalnet > > Part of that computer conferencing activity came to be called "tandem > memos". The company then had a "task force" to investigate the phenomena > ... including bringing in outside "experts". I remember two of the > outside experts brought in to participate were the authors of > "The Network Nation" ... reference here: > http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=8903 re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#57 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#64 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#65 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2010d.html#67 Adventure - Or Colossal Cave Adventure somebody printed six copies of about 300 pages of the "tandem memo" stuff on 6670 and packaged them in tandem corporation 3-ring binders and mailed one to each of the executive committee (chairman, ceo, president, etc). I got blamed for that also. some of it leaked outside the company and there was even an article in nov81 datamation (also blaming me). misc. past posts mentioning the incident: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#5 New IBM history book out http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#6 New IBM history book out http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001g.html#7 New IBM history book out http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2001j.html#31 Title Inflation http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002k.html#39 Vnet : Unbelievable http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002o.html#73 They Got Mail: Not-So-Fond Farewells http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#16 cost of crossing kernel/user boundary http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2002q.html#38 ibm time machine in new york times? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2004k.html#66 Question About VM List http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005c.html#50 [Lit.] Buffer overruns http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005d.html#37 Thou shalt have no other gods before the ANSI C standard http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2005q.html#5 What ever happened to Tandem and NonStop OS ? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006h.html#9 It's official: "nuke" infected Windows PCs instead of fixing them http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#24 Google Architecture http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006l.html#51 the new math: old battle of the sexes was: PDP-1 http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006r.html#11 Was FORTRAN buggy? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2006w.html#35 Top versus bottom posting was Re: IBM sues maker of Intel-based Mainframe clones http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007d.html#17 Jim Gray Is Missing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007e.html#48 time spent/day on a computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007i.html#34 Internal DASD Pathing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007p.html#30 Newsweek article--baby boomers and computers http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#57 Govt demands password to personal computer http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#29 Online Computer Conferencing http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009i.html#37 Why are z/OS people reluctant to use z/OS UNIX? http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2009o.html#38 U.S. house decommissions its last mainframe, saves $730,000 -- 42yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
