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Comment Re:Big Iron (Score 1) 170

Yep... They were 370s. I worked on them at Onizuka AS out in Sunnyvale, California from 1991 to 1996. We thought they were old then, but they did the jobs flawlessly. IBM worked closely with the Air Force to get them to do real time processing instead of the normal batch processing that most mainframes do. It was a lot of fun... but I hated doing our weekly backups to approximately 50 nine-track tapes. Of course, the center i worked in didn't handle the GPS satellites, but we did handle a lot of other missions (including providing backup support for the Space Shuttle).

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The security guru for the One Laptop Per Child program unveils his plan to make the rugged machines uniquely resistant to spyware and hack attacks. Ryan Singel reports from the RSA Conference.


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Obama Announces for President, Boosts Broadband 846

Arlen writes "As many as 17,000 people (according to police estimates) watched Senator Barack Obama officially announce his candidacy for President in Springfield, Illinois today. He mentioned several things that will interest readers of Slashdot. The Senator said he wanted to free America from 'the tyranny of oil' and went on to promote alternative energy sources such as ethanol — a popular stance in the Midwest where he announced, because of all the corn farmers. He also talked about using science and technology to help those with chronic diseases, which is likely to have been an allusion to his staunch support for stem cell research. Perhaps most of interest to readers here is the following statement halfway through Obama's speech: 'Let's invest in scientific research, and let's lay down broadband lines through the heart of inner cities and rural towns all across America. We can do that.' Like nearly everything in his speech, this was met with robust applause from the crowd. You can watch a video of the entire speech at Obama's website."

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