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Nick Spalding <spal...@iol.ie> writes:
> 
> My Green Card GX20-1703-9 has TS on it.  Anyone know what date the -9
> represents?

nope, but it is also in my -7. it seems to have been in all the
original 360s.

I did alta-vista search on 9020 and came up with a couple hits.

http://www.faa.gov/apa/speeches/aoa/FWINGS.htm

Automation of en route ATC began with the installation of IBM's
prototype 9020 system at the Jacksonville Center in 1967. Designed to
provide automated flight data processing and radar tracking at all en
route centers and major terminals, this was the most complex computer
application ever undertaken up to that time. Its half million commands
required more than twice the amount of memory originally planned, a
complication which caused the project to fall behind schedule. The
installation at all 22 en route centers was not completed until the
end of the 1970s.

http://www.aero-space.nasa.gov/library/ch1.htm

Automation of en route ATC began with the installation of IBM's
prototype 9020 system at the Jacksonville Center in 1967. The system
was designed to provide automated flight data processing and radar
tracking at all en route centers and major terminals. The system was
delivered behind schedule, which created significant frustration
within FAA, the aviation community and IBM. The system would not be in
place at all 22 en route centers until the end of the 1970s. However,
indicative of the complex nature of automating the en route
environment, the 9020 system proved to be the most complex computer
application in the world at the time, with more than half a million
commands. When the program was completed, IBM had more than doubled
the amount of memory the company had first thought the program would
require.

http://api.hq.faa.gov/96sp-fin.htm

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/5.67.html

http://home.columbus.rr.com/lusch/index.html

HOCSR (Host and Oceanic Computer Replacement System)
http://www.faa.gov/aua/ipt_prod/enroute/hocsrfct.htm

A system-wide upgrade completed in 1999 at the 20 Air Route Traffic
Control Centers. It is the heart of the system in that it receives,
processes, coordinates, distributes and tracks information on aircraft
movements throughout domestic and oceanic airspace. It replaced the
HOST computers that ten years earlier had replaced the old IBM 9020
computers. [Back]

HOST

A system-wide computer upgrade completed in 1989 at the 20 Air Route
Traffic Control Centers. HOST replaced the old IBM 9020 computers. It has
since been superseded by HOCSR. [Back]

http://www.faa.gov/aua/ipt_prod/enroute/hocsrfct.htm

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