17 Mar
2023
17 Mar
'23
9:13 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 16, 2023 at 9:38 PM Ethan Dicks via cctalk
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
We had an Amdahl in the middle of a multi-thousand-square-foot
computer room (one of several) at work 25 years ago.
Heh, of the limited number of big Mainframe data centers I got to
visit, every one had one big red Amdahl box among a vast field of IBM
hardware. Once you had enough IBM systems IBM just assumed you were
their bitch now and would pay whatever they asked for further systems.
The solution was to buy a single Amdahl system thus getting your IBM
sales rep summerily replaced with a much humbler one.
G.