re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2011n.html#84 Scanning JES3 JCL

i was brought into boeing hdqtrs summer of 1969 as part of helping get
boeing computer services (BCS) up and running. they had machine room at
hdqtrs (boeing field) with 360/30 for payroll and misc.  other hdqtrs
administration. It was built out to add a 1mbyte 360/67 for online
(virtual machine) cp67/cms timesharing operation.

The big datacenter was down at Reaton field ... that summer 360/65s were
arriving faster than they could be installed (there were constantly
parts of 2-3 360/65s in the halls around the machine room all that
summer) ... and they were starting to replicate it up at the 747
plant in Everett.

later I would sponsor Col. Boyd's briefings at IBM. His biographies has
him in charge of spook base about that time ... claimed to be a $2.5B
"windfall" for IBM (possibly $17+B inflation adjusted). old spook base
reference (gone 404 but lives on at the wayback machine)
http://web.archive.org/web/20030212092342/http://home.att.net/~c.jeppeson/igloo_white.html

the claimed picture in the above of 2250s ... is obviously wrong

my wife did stint in the G'burg JES group and was part of the catchers
for ASP->JES3 product. She then was one of the JESUS (JES Unified
System) authors ... all the features of JES2 & JES3, that customers
couldn't live w/o, combined in single product. Never got past that stage
because of the politics.

-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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