hasp was developed by ibm federal systems division contractors at the lyndon b. johnson space center in houston. the developers were tom simpson and bob crabtree. hasp was a program that ran on a mainframe, and performed functions such as: scheduling, control of job flow, spooling and printing/punching. hasp had no support for "ibm system/360 operating system remote job entry", 360s-rc-536, but provided roughly equivalent facilities of its own.