29 Apr
2015
29 Apr
'15
1:49 a.m.
On 04/28/2015 09:40 PM, Stewart C. Russell wrote:
It does occasionally dig into Canadian issues, partly because of the Canadian Ferranti-Packard company's design for the ICT (later ICL) 1900, arguably the UK's most successful mainframe.
Years ago, when the Toronto Stock Exchange was at 234 Bay St., they had a FP 6000. While I didn't work on it, some of the equipment I worked on was connected to it. Incidentallt, the Wikipedia article I linked to also mentions the Air Canada reservation system. I worked on a later incarnation of it, which ran on a Collins 8500C system. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferranti-Packard_6000