New Scans: IIT RUSH Time-Sharing

Chuck Guzis cclist at sydex.com
Thu Mar 3 00:50:48 CST 2016


On 03/02/2016 09:56 PM, Jason T wrote:
> That would be the Illinois Institute of Technology and their "Remote
> User Shared Hardware" time-sharing scheme on the IBM 360, circa July
> 1967.  Check out the prices - even per-minute pricing on core!
>
> http://chiclassiccomp.org/docs/index.php?dir=%2Fcomputing/IIT

That'd be IITRI,  IIT's Research Institute, not IIT Proper (the school), 
who used a 360/40 to run their student timesharing (remote ASR33 TTYs) 
in a DOS/360 foreground partition implementing the IITRAN language. 
IIRC, it was a 128K machine.  I don't recall what was on IITRI's 360/50. 
  Background was also available for student use via a 2501 card reader.

--Chuck


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