17 Jul
2004
17 Jul
'04
9:09 a.m.
There were probably a lot, but I remember "Call/370", which I think was
one of the first commercial ones.
==
I have an Auerbach report on timesharing services which I'll try to dig
up, which gives short company histories for many of the early commercial
services. Most of the major computer companies were offering some service
by the late 60's. Part of IBM's antitrust settlement with CDC was that
CDC got IBM's service bureau operation. GE timsharing stuck around for
a while. Tymeshare was one of the earliest independents, bootstrapping
themselves and fixing tons of bugs in the GENIE code.
I also forgot to mention HPs timeshared basic and 3000 systems, also from
the very early 70s ( the 3000 being HP's 'real' timesharing machine, so
they said)
20 Jul
20 Jul
12:08 p.m.
I'm not sure if more than one terminal at a time was supported, but
likely the first long-distance remote terminal on an electrical
calculator was the one on a Harvard Mark relay calculator. I think it
was dry copper to Aiken's office or something, some miles away, to a
teletype terminal. 1930's? 1940's?
Certainly the interface model is correct.
5:27 p.m.
Tom Jennings wrote:
I'm not sure if more than one terminal at a time
was supported, but
likely the first long-distance remote terminal on an electrical
calculator was the one on a Harvard Mark relay calculator. I think it
was dry copper to Aiken's office or something, some miles away, to a
teletype terminal. 1930's? 1940's?
From the archives of the IEEE Computer magazine :
It was particularly appropriate that time-sharing began at Dartmouth
College. Twenty-four years earlier at Dartmouth, on September 11,
1940, George Stibitz had first demonstrated remote computing. Using a
Teletype connected via a telephone line to New York City, Stibitz was
able to control the operation of his Complex Number Calculator at
Bell Telephone Laboratories. Among those who used the system was
logician Norbert Wiener.
http://www.computer.org/history/looking/r90006.htm
-- HansP
3:29 p.m.
the hp 2000A system was 1969! Phoenix union High School had one... we have
the 2116 on display here for it. It started as the main processor for the
early 2000A timeshare system then was used as the I/O processor when the
system was upgraded. its final form was A 2000F.
This system is signiffant in the history of computing here in Arizona as it
was the first timesharing system used at an Arizona highschool...
see a short blurb we lifted form the PUHSD booklet on the history...
http://www.smecc.org/puhs_-_arizona.htm
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From: "Al Kossow" <aek(a)spies.com>
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Subject: Re: Early timesharing/BBS systems
There were probably a lot, but I remember "Call/370", which I think was
one of the first commercial ones.
==
I have an Auerbach report on timesharing services which I'll try to dig
up, which gives short company histories for many of the early commercial
services. Most of the major computer companies were offering some service
by the late 60's. Part of IBM's antitrust settlement with CDC was that
CDC got IBM's service bureau operation. GE timsharing stuck around for
a while. Tymeshare was one of the earliest independents, bootstrapping
themselves and fixing tons of bugs in the GENIE code.
I also forgot to mention HPs timeshared basic and 3000 systems, also from
the very early 70s ( the 3000 being HP's 'real' timesharing machine, so
they said)
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