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From: sethb@Morgan.COM (Seth Breidbart)
Newsgroups: alt.folklore.computers,comp.lang.apl
Subject: Re: APL\360 Computers
Summary: developed at Yorktown Heights
Message-ID: <2769@ylum.Morgan.COM>
Date: 13 Feb 91 13:01:16 GMT
References: <1226@stca77.stc.oz> <1991Feb8.003825.15723@informix.com>
Organization: ex-IBM
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In article <1991Feb8.003825.15723@informix.com> cortesi@informix.com
(David Cortesi) writes:
>In article <1226@stca77.stc.oz> peter@stca77.stc.oz (Peter Jeremy) writes:
>>The first commercial APL product was APL\360, released by IBM and

>The product was developed in the IBM Philadelphia Scientific Center.

Actually, it was developed by the APL group at Yorktown Heights.  The
APL group was originally (before my time) part of IBM Research, and
was later moved to the Data Processing Division.

Adin Falkoff was the manager of the group, and in 1969 or 1970 he was
also made the head of the New York Scientific Center in New York City.
They looked for a single location that could hold both groups, and
ended up moving to Philadelphia.  (I believe that having a frisbee
field nearby was a requirement for the location chosen.)

Seth			sethb@fid.morgan.com