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To: steve harris who wrote (98328)	2/13/2000 1:24:00 AM
From: rudedog	Respond to of 186894

steve - maybe a week late... but still... These aren't the mainframes on the ground though. Correct - the lower performance of 2nd generation machines was accepted for in-flight because of the reduced power consumption, but the ground work was done mostly on IBM 655s. I think there was some transition to 709s and later 2nd generation 7090 machines in the mid-60's, prior to the launch of the 3rd generation machines. Arrival of the 360 would have been a little late for the first Apollo flights or even the moon landing.