Post by Jon ElsonI don't know where this message came from, but the 9020 was composed
of a buch of custom hardware, and several modified IBM 360 mainframes.
The 9020D Diaplay Element was a modified 360/50 with some additions to
microcode and a slightly different front panel. The 9020E Compute
Element was a modified 360/65 also with added microcode and a slightly
different front panel.
The Brawl in IBM 1964
https://www.amazon.com/Brawl-IBM-1964-Joseph-Fox/dp/1456525514
Two mid air collisions 1956 and 1960 make this FAA procurement
special. The computer selected will be in the critical loop of making
sure that there are no more mid-air collisions. Many in IBM want to not
bid. A marketing manager with but 7 years in IBM and less than one year
as a manager is the proposal manager. IBM is in midstep in coming up
with the new line of computers - the 360. Chaos sucks into the fray many
executives- especially the next chairman, and also the IBM president. A
fire house in Poughkeepsie N Y is home to the technical and marketing
team for 60 very cold and long days. Finance and legal get into the fray
after that.
Joe Fox had a 44 year career in the computer business- and was a vice
president in charge of 5000 people for 7 years in the federal division
of IBM. He then spent 21 years as founder and chairman of a software
corporation. He started the 3 person company in the Washington
D. C. area. He took it public as Template Software in 1995, and sold it
and retired in 1999. With 34 years of management, his enumeration and
depiction of the talents and traits that are to be recognized and
rewarded at all levels of management merit perusal - and even study. He
is also the author of Software and its Development published by Prentice
Hall in 1982, and two paperbacks, What If in 1979 and Trapped in the
Organization in 1980, both published by Price Stern Sloan. His software
book was translated into Russian, and his Executive Qualities was
translated into Spanish. Joe Fox grew up in Brooklyn N.Y., graduated
from St. John's University in Queens, N.Y. with a degree in Mathematics,
and joined IBM in 1956. Twenty years later, still in IBM, he had his
book Executive Qualities published by Addison Wesley in 1976. IBM, not
mentioned nor identified in the book, did not see it before
publication. IBM was not identified as the venue for the management
ideas and concepts. After 9 printings, the publisher discontinued the
book, but it still sells in book form on the Amazon used book
service. Mr. Fox frequently presented the traits, talents, trials and
tribulations detailed in his Executive Qualities book several times at
IBM's Sands Point executive month-long training, and at CIA management
meetings in Langley, Virginia. Mr. Fox chaired several committees for
DOD during his career.
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I don't remember running into Joe in IBM ... but after leaving IBM and
working in financial industry ... we had a big contract with Template
and spent lots of time with Joe and some other former IBMers. The Amazon
reviews has some mention of this 2nd part.
https://www.sebokwiki.org/wiki/Federal_Aviation_Administration_(FAA)_Advanced_Automation_System_(AAS)
while we were doing HA/CMP product, past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
we participated in some reviews of AAS.
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