The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ted MacNEIL) writes: > I started with 3330's. > And, I remember when STK (STC) showed us their first ICEBERG, and the > size of the device was that of a standard conference table, weighed > less and had the capacity of an order (or 2) of magnitude larger than > the 3330 farm I first tended. > > That 3330 farm was less than 50 GB, and we were considered a medium to large > site. > (Running on a 3081-D) re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007k.html#58 3350 failures silicon valley area had at least three fairly large vm370 customer datacenters with good sized disk farms ... there was SLAC (lots of collection from the accelerator) and both Tymshare and internal HONE operation ... both extensive online, timesharing services http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#timeshare HONE had somewhat started out with a number of cp67 installations to provide "hands-on" virtual machine use for branch office SEs. recent reference: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2007j.html#65 Help settle a job title/role debate It then transitioned to vm370 and lots of online, interactive APL applications supporting sales & marketing ... i.e. at some point early in 370 timeframe, there was transition where machine orders couldn't even be submitted w/o having first being processed by a HONE configuration. In the mid-70s, the various (US) HONE datacenters were consolidated in silicon valley area ... with what was possibly the largest single-system configuration in the world at the time (large datafarm with load balancing across large number of processors in loosely-coupled configuration). http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hone another large datacenter in silicon valley was Lockheed's DIALOG (online library titles and abstracts which has gone thru a number of owners since that time) ... which had something like 300(?) 3330-clones in their data farm (the basic service was MVS ... but lots of it was run under VM ... on clone processors). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
