IBM in TX
Guy Sotomayor Jr
ggs at shiresoft.com
Fri Jan 11 12:49:11 CST 2019
> 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
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