Mainframe Trivia Contest #6
February 9, 2009

The Mainframe Trivia Contest #5 is now over. The correct answer was “Stewart Alsop” and the winners of the ”Mainframes Rule” T-shirts are:

• Casey Parker, State Compensation Insurance Fund, San Francisco, California
• Onno Van den Troost, IBM Corporation, Raleigh, North Carolina
• Craig Vogel, MidAmerican Energy Co., Sioux City, Iowa

Mainframe Trivia Contest #6
Which of the three acronyms below was the name of the committee IBM formed in 1961 that formulated the plan to produce a compatible line of computer systems that became the System 360 family of mainframe systems?

• SPREAD
• THINK
• STRETCH

(I will randomly select three winners of this Mainframe Trivia Contest #6 who will receive a “Mainframes Rule” T-shirt as picured below. To participate, email your answer and T-shirt size to bob@mainframezone.com with Mainframe Trivia Contest #6 in the Subject line.)