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Article #210916Re: IBM 9020 FAA/ATC Systems from 1960's
From: Daniel House
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:32
Date: Wed, 08 Aug 2001 22:32
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John, This has been a wealth of great information on the 9020 system(s). How is your way-back machine? At the following URL is a picture of a 9020E salvage case (it is only the op ctl panel for one of the 3 computing elements--very clearly a 360/65 derivative): http://home.nc.rr.com/deh/GALLERY/9020E_2.JPG About 1/4 the way down the left hand side is a square hole. It's where a lighted button went. Any idea what the button was (vainly hoping I can find the correctly labeled button somewhere)? I don't think it was "Power On", as there is a switch on the lower right quadrant labeled that. Regards, Dan "John Varela" <jav...@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:vd2NzVOTNb7v-pn2-PBomleKh1jJS@dialup-209.244.224.188.Dial1.Washington1. Level3.net... > On Tue, 31 Jul 2001 00:56:11, jav...@earthlink.net (John Varela) wrote: > > (Responding to my own post.) > > > The contract was awarded to IBM in the summer of 1964 and the first one, a > > 9020A all 360/50 system, was delivered to the National Aviation Facilities > > Experimental Center (NAFEC) near Atlantic City in the summer of 1965, and > > software development started. > > I should have mentioned that, when the system was delivered in the summer of > 1965, it came with its operating system, including multiprocessing fault > detection and recovery. As best I can recall, there were never any problems > with the multiprocessing features of the OS. > > -- > John Varela
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