4 Aug
2019
4 Aug
'19
2:37 p.m.
> The hardware is excellent. They have fairly fast processors, and the
> I/O capacity is great. Reliability is typical IBM.
>
> The OS sucks balls. All the balls.
>
> Commercially, they were not a success, despite being IBM's first
> "open" system, in that they invited third party developers. It seems
When I joined HP in mid-1979, the first week I spotted an IBM Series/1
in a small conference room ... with an IBM repairman. The HP engineers
had apparently blown out a memory board somehow while "looking" at it :)
From the HP 3000 viewpoint, we weren't worried
about the Series/1.
Stan