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To: Lazamataz

Sometime during/soon after 1971 I used a teletype style terminal to use shared mainframe capability (easily learned language like Basic), while working for Signal Oil & Gas Co.

I think the computer was owned by McDonnel Douglas, and was called “Mc-Auto” or something along that line. I think the machine was located in the Bay area.


133 posted on 12/18/2016 9:28:37 PM PST by truth_seeker
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To: truth_seeker

McAuto was still around in the early 1980s. We used their mainframes to run commercial/industrial/institutional building energy modeling software that the Trane Company licensed, TRACE, TRane Air Conditioning Economic. Not too much later, PCs were able to run TRACE and TRACE-like programs, and using it on the mainframe went the way of the dodo, like many things.


139 posted on 12/19/2016 3:38:02 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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