* Posts by Zaphod B

2 publicly visible posts • joined 18 Mar 2014

How Brit computer maker beat IBM's S/360 - and Soviet spies

Zaphod B
Holmes

Brunel

Thanks god no english engineering entered the worlds stage of mainframe IT otherwise we would all carry steam machines to power our steel enforced Brunel style mobile devices today.

USSR gave up on 360's soon and let the Hungarians clone 43xx VM/DOS/VSE while concentrating on VAX cloning.

MH370 airliner MYSTERY: The El Reg Pub/Dinner-party Guide

Zaphod B

The question nobody ever asked

What cargo was on the plane ?