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"Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> writes:
> Even more, one does *not* discuss classified information in an environment 
> where others, not possessing both the appropriate clearance *and* 
> need-to-know, might overhear the discussion.  Most residential occupancies 
> fail to meet this requirement (think of how easy it would be to turn your 
> telephone into a listening device).

we were walking down isle at supercomputer conference and coming up to a
booth and one of the people we were with, turned and went the other
direction.  later they said that their clearance required them to report
any reference to the site (hosting the booth) ... even though the site
had been declassified, their clearance hadn't been updated (and they
were still required to report any reference).

we were interested in the booth because they were one of the first IBM
supercomputer installations.

I've mentioned before working on cluster scale-up for ha/cmp
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#hacmp
... both commercial and scientific/technical with national
labs. reference to commerical scale-up meeting in ellison's conference
room Jan1992
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/95.html#13

within a month of the meeting, the scaleup work was transferred,
announced as IBM supercomputer for scientific and technical *ONLY* and
we were told we couldn't work on anything with more than four processors
(contributing to decision to leave IBM) ... some old cluster scaleup
email around that time
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/lhwemail.html#medusa

and then 17feb1992, IBM press, announced for scientific and technical
*only*
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters1
and 11may1992, national lab interest in cluster scaleup caught IBM by
*surprise*
http://manana.garlic.com/~lynn/2001n.html#6000clusters2

other trivia ... two of the Oracle people in the Ellison meeting, later
leave Oracle and show up at small client/server startup responsible for
something called "commerce server". We get brought in as consultants
because they want to do payment transactions on the server; the startup
had also invented this technology they call "SLL"; the result is
now frequently called "electronic commerce".

cryptologic museum has enigma
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Cryptologic_Museum

The NCM collection contains thousands of artifacts, including numerous
working World War II German Enigma machines (2 of them are available for
visitors to try out), and a Navy Bombe used to break it.

... snip ...

they also have an IBM Harvest display
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_7950_Harvest
and
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:HARVEST-tape.jpg


-- 
virtualization experience starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970

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enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 13:46 +0000
  Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-17 14:07 +0000
    Re: enigma philo <philo@privacy.net> - 2016-03-17 10:00 -0500
    Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-17 15:29 +0000
    Re: enigma Bob Eager <news0006@eager.cx> - 2016-03-17 22:23 +0000
      Re: enigma Jon Elson <elson@pico-systems.com> - 2016-03-17 21:12 -0500
      Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-18 12:39 +0000
        Re: enigma scott@slp53.sl.home (Scott Lurndal) - 2016-03-18 13:15 +0000
          Re: enigma Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-03-18 13:30 +0000
            Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-18 15:39 +0000
        Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 08:26 -0600
          Re: enigma Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2016-03-18 18:26 +0000
          Re: enigma "Joe Morris" <j.c.morris@verizon.net> - 2016-03-18 19:00 -0400
            Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:19 -0700
              Re: enigma Anne & Lynn Wheeler <lynn@garlic.com> - 2016-03-18 17:27 -0700
            Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
              Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:04 -0500
                Re: enigma Joe Pfeiffer <pfeiffer@cs.nmsu.edu> - 2016-03-18 21:28 -0600
            Re: enigma hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2016-03-19 11:14 -0700
              Re: enigma Stephen Wolstenholme <steve@easynn.com> - 2016-03-20 09:02 +0000
        Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-18 17:47 -0700
          Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-18 20:06 -0500
            Re: enigma mausg@mail.com - 2016-03-19 11:01 +0000
              Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 10:06 -0400
                Re: enigma Morten Reistad <first@last.name.invalid> - 2016-03-19 16:17 +0100
                Re: enigma greymaus <mausg@mail.com> - 2016-03-19 17:45 +0000
                Re: enigma "J. Clarke" <j.clarke.873638@gmail.com> - 2016-03-19 14:00 -0400
                Re: enigma sidd@situ.com (sidd) - 2016-03-19 15:48 -0400
              Re: enigma Ahem A Rivet's Shot <steveo@eircom.net> - 2016-03-19 15:10 +0000
              Re: enigma Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2016-03-19 12:31 -0500
            Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-19 07:28 -0700
            Re: enigma cb@elaine.df.lth.se (Christian Brunschen) - 2016-03-19 18:05 +0000
              Re: enigma Jon Elson <jmelson@wustl.edu> - 2016-03-21 13:56 -0500
                Re: enigma Andy Burns <feb2017-usenet@adslpipe.co.uk> - 2016-03-21 19:47 +0000
  Re: enigma "capek@ieee.org <Peter Capek>" <peter.capek@gmail.com> - 2016-03-20 23:16 -0700
    Re: enigma Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2016-03-21 05:55 -0700
      Re: enigma JimP. <blue@cwahi.net> - 2016-03-21 12:07 -0500
        Re: enigma Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2016-03-21 13:51 -0700

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