Awesome! I saw the movie yesterday. It was very good. Thanks to all who helped and provided the historical accuracy.
I was in elementary school in Florida during that time. We were given the day off school to watch the launch on TV. Of course we also had to write a short report about it. I will never forget it. My first mainframe was a Univac 90/70D at college. I learned to program on it, then operations and some of the systems work. Linda Mooney Sent from my iPhone > On Jan 13, 2017, at 8:38 AM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> wrote: > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
