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'''Virtual Storage Personal Computing''' (VSPC) was a service offered by [[IBM]] in the late 1970s and early 1980s.<ref>In Germany, the service was announced in October, 1979 according to [https://www.computerwoche.de/a/virtual-storage-personal-computing-vspc-mit-benutzersprache-as-neuer-dfv-service-der-ibm-rechenzentren,1194110 an article in Computerwoche dated 1979-10-19].</ref> From a data terminal, users could run both [[interactive]] processes and [[batch job]]s on remote computing hardware (located in IBM service centres, or in organisations' machine rooms) to which they were connected e.g. by telephone lines using [[modem]]s. Among the [[programming language]]s offered were VSPC variants of [[BASIC]], [[FORTRAN]], [[APL (programming language)|APL]] and [[PL/I]]. VSPC became obsolete following the invention of the [[Personal Computer]] as computing power became available to the individual user locally.
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