3 Mar
2016
3 Mar
'16
6:56 a.m.
That would be the Illinois Institute of Technology and their "Remote
User Shared Hardware" time-sharing scheme on the IBM 360, circa July
1967. Check out the prices - even per-minute pricing on core!
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/IIT
Enjoy
-j
3 Mar
3 Mar
7:50 a.m.
On 03/02/2016 09:56 PM, Jason T wrote:
That would be the Illinois Institute of Technology and
their "Remote
User Shared Hardware" time-sharing scheme on the IBM 360, circa July
1967. Check out the prices - even per-minute pricing on core!
http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/IIT
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.
--Chuck
9:51 p.m.
From: Chuck Guzis
Sent: Wednesday, March 02, 2016 10:51 PM
On 03/02/2016 09:56 PM, Jason T wrote:
> That would be the Illinois Institute of Technology
and their "Remote
> User Shared Hardware" time-sharing scheme on the IBM 360, circa July
> 1967. Check out the prices - even per-minute pricing on core!
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.
Wow. I used that background partition!
When I took "Computer Math" (FORTRAN IV on a 1401) the latter half of my
senior year in high school, several of my friends from the Chess Club were
taking Saturday Extension courses in PL/1 and COBOL at IIT. (They had
taken the FORTRAN class in the autumn semester.)
I read through the programmed instruction texts for both languages and did
all my FORTRAN assignments in all three; different friends allowed me to
piggyback on their funny money allocations so I could get my code run.
One of my friends was fascinated by IITRAN, too.
Rich
Rich Alderson
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Living Computer Museum
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4 Mar
4 Mar
12:57 a.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
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