12 Jul
2016
12 Jul
'16
6:01 a.m.
On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 1:24 PM, <steven at malikoff.com> wrote:
Camiel said:
You're quite right, I was wrong. Both hardware and software
development took place at Hursley. According to Pugh, Johnson, and
Palmer's "IBM's 360 and early 370 systems", the /30 (then called NPL
101) was developed at Endicott, the /40 (NPL 250) at Hursley, and the
larger models at Poughkeepsie.
IBM UK Laboratories in Hursley was a software
facility, the model 40 was
developed in Poughkeepsie, like the others. Secondary production sites were
in Mainz, Germany, and Japan.
Yes, the wiki does say that, but I am sure Hursley was involved in designing
hardware as well, for instance TROS. This PDF by Pugh states that a team at Hursley
were designing the Model 40: http://ed-thelen.org/Pugh-Technology_Transfer.pdf
As a CE, my dad was there to study the hardware only.