> > Does anyone know what computer Ford Motor Company used in the 1960's?
> >
>
> I don't know what they were using in the 60's, but I worked
> for them in the early 70's. If I recall correctly, the assembly
> plants ran on Honeywell computers, and the main facilities used
> IBM 360s. Sometime around 1973 the 360s were replaced by 370s.
>
> This was on the data processing side of the company, the design
> and research departments used different facilities.
I believe Ford was a GE/Honeywell operation for some of the R&D.
I thought they were a Multics shop as well.
They had a lot of Vaxen in the mid 80's... A friend of mine
was a DEC Field Engineer out there for a while while I had
the Central NJ area as my base.
> Dr. Mark Green mark_at_cs.ualberta.ca
> Professor (780) 492-4584
> Director, Research Institute for Multimedia Systems (RIMS)
> Department of Computing Science (780) 492-1071 (FAX)
> University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, T6G 2H1, Canada
>
>
Bill
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Received on Sun May 07 2000 - 18:03:25 BST