10 Aug
2022
10 Aug
'22
2:43 a.m.
Early on in my career at IBM Yorktown, ca. 1976, I was submitting many
long running simulation jobs to the 360/91 there. At one point, the head
of computer systems (I.T. if you will) wrote to the head of computer
sciences (my department) complaining that I had just spent $50K over
some short period, asking if this was justified. My management shrugged
it off, encouraged me to continue what I was doing. I might still have
the letter somewhere.
A couple of years later, while on the faculty at U.T. Austin, one of the
main budgetary items in research grant proposals was purchase of
mini-computers, assuming those were a more efficient use of funds than
paying for time at the campus computing center (then using CDC 6600 and
successors).
COFF?
Charlie
On 8/9/2022 3:19 PM, Warner Losh wrote:
Computing budgets were tiny: You had only so many $$$
for your runs and
if you made
too many, you'd run out of $$$ before you were done (more applicable as
a student than
as a professional post school though). Consequently your time was
plentiful and
computer time was scarce.
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