18 Feb
2012
18 Feb
'12
2:56 a.m.
The CE for UMR's 360/50 passwd away about 10 years ago, sadly. He also
maintained the 360/40 that IBM loaned to them for about a year in 69 or so.
He got a call from his supervisor in St. Louis one afternoon and told
him he was going to go to train for the CE spot for UMR. It wasn't
clear it that it was for electronic apparatus, since all he had done was
Selectrics and regular IBM typewriters. He had actually asked to train
on the mechanical an small calculators, but got a bit more than he
bargained for.
He was a very nice guy and always impressed me as to how the IBM
maintainence could be passed on to anyone, regardless of background.
Not to say anything about him at all, he figured things out very
quickly. It was the first I'd heard of them throwing a typewriter
repair guy at a 360.
Also the 1050 console always worked really well.
I'll pass this to a mainframe guy who works at IBM here in Orange County
and see if he knows anyone. Only problem he's a bit too young too to
know anyone that did 360's for the most part.
Jim
On 2/17/2012 5:50 PM, Paul Anderson wrote:
i Rich,
I passed your search onto a friend who used to be in charge of all the
computers at Fermilabs. He said he knew two people who worked on 360's
and would try to contact them in a few days.
Good luck, Paul