3 Mar
2016
3 Mar
'16
3:57 p.m.
On Thu, Mar 3, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
That'd be IITRI, IIT's Research Institute,
not IIT Proper (the school), who
used a 360/40 to run their student timesharing (remote ASR33 TTYs) in a
DOS/360 foreground partition implementing the IITRAN language. IIRC, it was
a 128K machine. I don't recall what was on IITRI's 360/50. Background was
also available for student use via a 2501 card reader.
Now that I've read my own scan, I see:
"IIT Research Institute has just concluded an agreement with
Allen-Babcock Computing, Inc. of Los Angeles for extension of its RUSH
time-sharing system to IITRI clients in the midwest."
So the 360 (or this 360, anyway) wasn't even there at IITRI.
It appears they still exist. Maybe I'll try to get in touch with
someone over there to see if there's any more computing history to dig
up.
j