[inforoots] Fwd: The IBM 7090 & Yacht Handicapping

[Bill Worthington]

That would support my having learned System/360 assembler language in 
Boston in the spring of 1964.  The education center there trained 
Systems Engineers in assembler language and they used a 7094 running a 
S/360 simulator to give us overnight turnaround for our programs.  The 
class was about a week in duration.

Regards, Bill



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> IBM had been very generous to MIT in the fifties and sixties, donating 
> its biggest scientific computers. When a new top of the line 36-bit 
> scientific machine came out, MIT expected to get one. In the early 
> sixties, the deal was that MIT got one 8-hour shift, all the other New 
> England colleges and universities got a shift, and the third shift was 
> available to IBM for its own use. One use IBM made of it was yacht 
> handicapping: the president of IBM raced big yachts on Long Island 
> Sound, and these boats were assigned handicap points by a complicated 
> formula. There was a special job deck kept at the MIT Computation 
> Center, and if a request came in to run it, operators were to stop 
> whatever was running on the machine and do the yacht handicapping job 
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