[ih] Historical fiction

[mfidelman at meetinghouse.net (Miles Fidelman)]

Dave Walden wrote:
>
> 2. My feeling is that local areas networking with PCs took off (circa 
> 1980s) partly because company (not just university) branch  offices, 
> departments, etc., could use that to escape the control (and perhaps 
> cost) of the official company computer center.
>
Absolutely true.  One of my early jobs was managing a PDP-20 at Sanders 
(along with the company tech. library for some reason).  What they 
didn't tell me, and I was too naive to ask about at the time, was that 
the 5(?) engineering divisions had all launched coupes to purchase their 
own VAXen - precisely to escape the chargebacks for cycles on the PDP-20.


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