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From: "Charles H Sauer (he/him)" <sauer@technologists.com>
To: tuhs@tuhs.org
Subject: [TUHS] mainframe $ budgets [was Re: Re: SNOBOL and RATSNO
Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 15:43:06 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a46f1a06-00a3-c4c9-a338-596571944268@technologists.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CANCZdfp1f0ToHZfARoX2oM5BqZe8Mu0krLwLmxFNkx6X36XJWQ@mail.gmail.com>

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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  reply	other threads:[~2022-08-09 20:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-08-09 17:42 [TUHS] " Noel Chiappa
2022-08-09 18:49 ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 18:54   ` Tom Teixeira
2022-08-09 19:00     ` Larry McVoy
2022-08-09 19:21       ` Marshall Conover
2022-08-09 20:19         ` Warner Losh
2022-08-09 20:43           ` Charles H Sauer (he/him) [this message]
2022-08-09 20:58             ` [TUHS] Re: mainframe $ budgets [was " Marc Donner
2022-08-09 22:49               ` Charles H Sauer (he/him)
2022-08-10 21:13 ` [TUHS] " Bill Cheswick
2022-08-10 21:30   ` John Cowan
2022-08-11 16:08     ` Marc Donner

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