On 02/19/2012 05:24 AM, Kris Kirby wrote:
On Mon, 13 Feb 2012, St?phane Tsacas wrote:
NASA unplugs last mainframe
IBM mainframes no longer a NASA workhorse
IBM mainframe available for a collector ?
http://www.networkworld.com/community/blog/nasa-unplugs-last-mainframe
They probably have another one somewhere that no one knows about, used
for decoding spacecraft data from the 1970s....
;)
Quite possibly. But NASA is a BIG organization; I have a very hard
time believing that there are NO "mainframes" running there now. First
of all, define "mainframe"...If you just mean "IBM mainframes", NASA
had
a whole lot of P390 systems running for development, and later lots of
installations of FLEX-ES. I don't know that anyone can make a
definitive statement that "there are no longer any mainframes running at
NASA".
It sure did make for a nice article, though. (which was probably the
point)
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA