Interesting articl

2009-09-15 Thread P S
http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html Something that caught my eye: "IBM...opened five major new plants." Which five? Anyone know? -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / s

Re: Interesting articl

2009-09-15 Thread Richard Pace
On Tuesday 15 September 2009, P S wrote: > http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-D >inosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html > > Something that caught my eye: > "IBM...opened five major new plants." > > Which five? Anyone know? Here is a link to an IBM FAQ. There is a sec

Re: Interesting articl

2009-09-15 Thread William H. Blair
> which were opened for the system/360 project The East Fishkill, NY plant was specially built to manufacture Solid Logic Technology (SLT) modules for the System/360. At the time, this plant was considered "highly automated." I am not aware of any plants in the U.S. that were specifically built t

Re: Interesting articl

2009-09-18 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In <67954f200909151257l342a9afao13d169df75d09...@mail.gmail.com>, on 09/15/2009 at 12:57 PM, P S said: >http://www.ciozone.com/index.php/Server-Technology-Zone/The-Mainframe-The-Dinosaur-That-Wouldn-t-Die.html So, e.g., the 701, 702, 704, 705, 7030, 7070, 7080, 7090, weren't mainframes? As f