I wrote the mainframe history presentation originally to present to the University of Waterloo computer science club about 10 years ago. I have been updating it ever since and I have two versions now (one general and one with additional VM information). I used it at a special session at SHARE in Boston for the 50th anniversary of SHARE and did another major update for the 45th anniversary of S/360 last year.
I have not been around IBM quite as long as Tom (only 37 years for me) but our team here in Toronto has a lot of long-serving mainframers. My first computer was an IBM S/360-75 (remote via cards at the North York ON school board) and an IBM 1130 at my high school in Don Mills ON (near the then IBM plant and lab, we were spoiled by IBM). This was back in 1969/1970. When I went to college it was a step "back" to accounting machines (yes, a 407 and a 514) then to a 1620 and finally a S/360-30. My first job as a co-op was a further step back to a 650 at Defense Research in Victoria, BC. When I joined IBM in 1973 it was to work as an operator on a S/360-20 and a S/360-67. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
