[HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

[Guy Werry]

I don't go back that far and I don't remember the model numbers, but I
remember it being a big hairy deal (circa 1980) when the university our
university used as a service beaureau upgraded its Amdahl machine to 16
meg of real memory with 24 meg of virtual!

I also remember seeing a really HOT micro-computer that had 4K of
memory, a 4 inch black & white screen and a PAPER TAPE READER!
Now, my grandson watches movies on my laptop that is using the wireless
network to play the movie off of the upstairs computer ... Not to
mention the whole Ipod stuff ...

Guy L. Werry
Senior Systems Analyst
Hudson Bay Mining & Smelting Co., Limited. 

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-bounces+guy.werry=hbms.ca at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+guy.werry=hbms.ca at lists.sowder.com] On Behalf
Of Deskin, Bob
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 9:35 AM
To: powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

 I too remember those machines. I was stationed at a company who put
their punched cards through an IBM accounting machine after sorting them
on a sorter. Once they were verified, we sent them to the mainframe via
a remote station. All IBM machinery and computers. As I recall, the
computer was an IBM 360/85 with 16 meg of memory. Quite a large machine
in those days (circa 1974).

Tell that to your kids and they won't believe you.

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com
[mailto:powerh-l-bounces+bob.deskin=cognos.com at lists.sowder.com] On
Behalf Of Fred Tang
Sent: November 30, 2007 9:30 am
To: Guy Werry; powerh-l at lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: [HP3000-L] IBM Buying Cognos

I remember the mentioned machines as IBM 421 and IBM 444, together witch
collator IBM 088, sorter IBM 084, reproducer 541 or so (connected to the
444 to punch cards with totals and so on). That was 1967 or so.

After that we got IBM computers with RPG, assembler, cobol, PL/1 and so
on. And not only hexadecimal (binary 8 4 2 1) but also octal (4 2 1).

Am I so old? Yes, a few years to go and I can retire.

F.J. Tang (Fred)
Software Advisor of the Piramide Group in The Netherlands
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Vistaddress: Kerkstraat 56, 1354 AB Almere-Haven
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Telefax: + 31 (0) 036-5313610
Internet: <http://www.piramide.nl>
E-mail personal: f.tang at piramide.nl
E-mail company: info at piramide.nl 

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