Harmon Seaver wrote:
John Young wrote:
We've been unable to retrieve more than a few words from the redacted portions (by use of xerography to reveal text below the overwrites), and would appreciate any leads on what NONSTOP means. Joel McNamara has been searching for NONSTOP info for some time:
I happen to admin a Tandem "NonStop" K-200
[...snip...]
So the bottom line here is this -- I'd really rather doubt that the NONSTOP referred to above has anything to do with Tandems.
Agreed that John's "non-stop" doesn't sound anything like Tandem boxes (which surely wouldn't be a secret code-wood anyway?)
Certainly they aren't running Tandem stuff on planes and vehicles -- this is heavy iron --
They certainly used to run IBM 370 (a lot heavier than Tandems both in mass & power consumption!) in the air, probably to manage AWACS tape filestore (I vaguely think they may even have used UCC1). That is unless the US & German airforce people I sometimes met on operating system training courses back in the early 1980s were *very* good at pulling the wool over fellow-student's eyes. Ken Brown