It's interesting to note that this mailing list indirectly contributed to the movie. The directors contacted several people on this list whose experience goes back to the days when 7090s walked the earth, and we were able to correct a number of issues about what would have been possible or permitted with such a machine.
It's really weird to see how personal computers have influenced people's assumptions about what is and is not possible. NASA's 7090 was strictly access-controlled, and there would have been no ability to touch the hardware, certainly not by applications programmers. The directors had a hard time comprehending the idea of leased machines and charging by the CPU meter -- they didn't believe it until I was able to show them paperwork from that era that laid out IBM's expectations of customer and FE responsibilities and the charging model. So, pat yourselves on the back -- we kept things accurate. The movie's worth seeing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
