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IBM-ACS: Reminiscences and Lessons Learned from a 1960’s Supercomputer Project

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Dependable and Historic Computing

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This paper contains reminiscences of my work as a young engineer at IBM-Advanced Computing Systems. I met my colleague Brian Randell during a particularly exciting time there – a time that shaped our later careers in very interesting ways. This paper reflects on those long-ago experiences and the many lessons learned back then. I’m hoping that other ACS veterans will share their memories with us too, and that together we can build ever-clearer images of those heady days.

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Conway, L. (2011). IBM-ACS: Reminiscences and Lessons Learned from a 1960’s Supercomputer Project. In: Jones, C.B., Lloyd, J.L. (eds) Dependable and Historic Computing. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6875. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-24541-1_15

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