I remember being sent along to some meeting by Nigel Hammond to argue the case for Telemail (using Tandem computers) as opposed to Gold (using Prime computers). Well Nick West was supposed to argue this case I was supposed to give technical support. In the end it was not really a technical issue. It was about whether potential customers of an email system would pay twice the cost for a reduced risk that emails would be lost. That meeting did not go well from our point of view. Nigel Hammond was not pleased. |
Nigel Hammond still got a business case through to buy a couple of Tandems which were put in Baynard House and used for various services.
Eventually we used Tandem computers for EDI services.
| I think the directory enquiry 'Hostess' was originally on Nigel Hammonds Perkin-Elmer (IBM System/370 clone) system but software was written by Belfast to put it on the Tandem computer. |  |
Computing April 2 1987
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