IBM in TX

[Guy Sotomayor Jr]

> On Jan 11, 2019, at 9:58 AM, William Donzelli via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org> wrote:
> 
>> Looks like the "Mainframe" is an IBM Series/1 which is not a Mainframe, and
>> I would say has limited appeal to collectors as there are few resources out
>> there as the software is all fully licenced so its had to make legal copies.
> 
> It does not help that the OS software also sucks.

There once was a port of Unix to the Series/1.  Long story but the Unix center
of competency for IBM was first at Boca Raton (with Series/1 as the platform).
At the time AT&T offered to sell IBM the full rights to Unix and AT&T would get
out of the Unix biz.  Then there was a political battle between Boca Raton and
Austin.  Boca lost and the rest as they say is history.  As part of that *all* (as in
every shred of)  Unix for the Series/1 was destroyed (with IBM security looking
on to make sure nothing was missed).

TTFN - Guy