[rescue] San Antonio, TX area rescue

[Jeffrey J. Nonken]

On Mon, 02 Dec 2002 21:33:19 +0100 (MET), Stephen D. B. Wolthusen wrote:
>Hi,
>
>On 02-Dec-2002 Dave McGuire wrote:
>[...]
>>Learning, man.  These are fascinating machines that much of the
>>world's business runs on...and arguably, the ONLY computers in
>>common
>>use today that actually evolved from the earliest digital
>>computers,
>>and incorporate many of the techniques and thoughts that the
>>world's
>>most brilliant minds came up with from the 1940s to the 1960s...as
>>compared to *everything* else we've got now which descends from the
>>
>>i4004, which was designed for use in a Japanese-built desktop
>>calculator.
>
>I think folks like Ken Olsen or Gordon Bell would be mortally
>offended at that
>statement (just to mention a few - the ILLIAC IV team is another
>that instantly
>springs to mind).
>
>IBM hasn't always been an first or most successful to innovate. In
>some cases
>they had to be dragged along kicking and screaming by their
>customers.

Interesting you should use ILLIAC IV to punctuate your statement.

My father has commented before how IBM would often trumpet a "new" concept
that Burroughs had been selling for years.

And I remember when he worked on the ILLIAC IV project.

 :)