On 02/26/2022 4:20 PM Todd Sullivan via groups.io <sullivant41@...> wrote:

Tim,

Fascinating article on the Stamford gas and electric utilities. 

In 1970, I joined the IBM family of companies in the Service Bureau Corp. as a rent-a-programmer, and one of my assignments was at Conn. Light & Power's offices in New Britain converting HELCO (Hartoford Elec Light Co) billing systems to work with CP&L's systems.  The CP&L mainframe computer was an old IBM 7074, which is what I learned to code on at Syracuse University in the late 1960s.

Todd Sullivan

On 02/26/2022 9:33 PM Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote:

Tim,

Was the 7074 in the basement of Smith Hall at Syracuse University? I thought it was a 360 series machine.

Ken Montero

On 02/26/2022 4:20 PM Todd Sullivan via groups.io <sullivant41@...> wrote:

Tim,

Fascinating article on the Stamford gas and electric utilities. 

In 1970, I joined the IBM family of companies in the Service Bureau Corp. as a rent-a-programmer, and one of my assignments was at Conn. Light & Power's offices in New Britain converting HELCO (Hartoford Elec Light Co) billing systems to work with CP&L's systems.  The CP&L mainframe computer was an old IBM 7074, which is what I learned to code on at Syracuse University in the late 1960s.

Todd Sullivan

On 02/26/2022 9:33 PM Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote:

Tim,

Was the 7074 in the basement of Smith Hall at Syracuse University? I thought it was a 360 series machine.

Ken Montero

On 02/26/2022 4:20 PM Todd Sullivan via groups.io <sullivant41@...> wrote:

Tim,

Fascinating article on the Stamford gas and electric utilities. 

In 1970, I joined the IBM family of companies in the Service Bureau Corp. as a rent-a-programmer, and one of my assignments was at Conn. Light & Power's offices in New Britain converting HELCO (Hartoford Elec Light Co) billing systems to work with CP&L's systems.  The CP&L mainframe computer was an old IBM 7074, which is what I learned to code on at Syracuse University in the late 1960s.

Todd Sullivan

On 02/26/2022 11:09 PM Todd Sullivan via groups.io <sullivant41@...> wrote:

Hi Ken,

The 7074 (a dead end IBM architecture) was in Machinery Hall in the 'glass house' room in 1964-65 when I started takng short programming classes.  SU got an IBM 360 Model 50 later, and had a hard time figuring it out (125 manuals vs. about 5 for the 7074).  I was working in the Carnagie Library around 1965-66 as the Supervisor of Data Processing (2 card punches, an 083 sorter, a 407 printer and 2-3 people), and later in the 360-50 era on a research project as a software designer and tech writer.

Todd

On Saturday, February 26, 2022, 08:41:55 PM CST, Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote:

Todd,

Please excuse the misnomer.

Ken Montero

On 02/26/2022 9:33 PM Kenneth Montero <va661midlo@...> wrote:

Tim,

Was the 7074 in the basement of Smith Hall at Syracuse University? I thought it was a 360 series machine.

Ken Montero

On 02/26/2022 4:20 PM Todd Sullivan via groups.io <sullivant41@...> wrote:

Tim,

Fascinating article on the Stamford gas and electric utilities. 

In 1970, I joined the IBM family of companies in the Service Bureau Corp. as a rent-a-programmer, and one of my assignments was at Conn. Light & Power's offices in New Britain converting HELCO (Hartoford Elec Light Co) billing systems to work with CP&L's systems.  The CP&L mainframe computer was an old IBM 7074, which is what I learned to code on at Syracuse University in the late 1960s.

Todd Sullivan

Hi Ken,

The 7074 (a dead end IBM architecture) was in Machinery Hall in the 'glass house' room in 1964-65 when I started takng short programming classes.  SU got an IBM 360 Model 50 later, and had a hard time figuring it out (125 manuals vs. about 5 for the 7074).  I was working in the Carnagie Library around 1965-66 as the Supervisor of Data Processing (2 card punches, an 083 sorter, a 407 printer and 2-3 people), and later in the 360-50 era on a research project as a software designer and tech writer.

Todd