NONSTOP Crypto Query

[Ken Brown]

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