13 Jan
2006
13 Jan
'06
5:37 p.m.
On Friday 13 January 2006 17:10, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
William Donzelli wrote:
The thing I miss from the Kingston plant is the SP line. It's nowhere
near as cool in Poughkeepsie.
> Anyway, mainframes were so much better when they were BIG.
Ah, you guys are bringing up some fond remembrances. I had an office in the
705 Building in Poughkeepsie and an office in the manufacturing plant in
Kingston. Date 1963 - when IBM was "finishing off" the 7094 line in
Poughkeepsie and the 7044 line in Kingston and replacing them with System/360
lines. When System/360 was launched, I ran a software modeling group - which
ran simulations of the many iterations of hardware, MFT, MVS, Compilers, etc.
It was a blast!!!
BTW: I used to live in Rhinebeck - kinda inbetween the two plants...
Cheers,
Lyle
--
Lyle Bickley
Bickley Consulting West Inc.
Mountain View, CA
http://bickleywest.com
"Black holes are where God is dividing by zero"
I
don't believe the vacated buildings are necessarily due to the market
dying away. I think it's more because mainframes have gotten physically
a lot smaller.
Well, the Kingston plant went from making computers to processing income
tax. Extremes of fun, to say the least.