... > The 3705, as you know, has a very pretty panel. Lots of things to fiddle > with. > > Does anyone have a panel sitting around? ...
In the late 1970's, they decided to use the University of Waterloo's computer room (nicknamed the pit) for a movie called “Utilities”. The machine was an old 360-40 (one with the spedometer). The director complained that there weren't enough flashing lights, and because it was VM (online) the tapes weren't moving. We faked up a board, with an Osborne (or a VIC-20 -- I can't remember which) driving it, and set up some background Virtual Machines to read a record or two, High-Speed Re-Wind and Repeat. The whole set-up did nothing, but it looked great in the movie. Little did I know that by reading a record or two and then closing the tape, would emulate the first three or four application programmes I would optimise in Production as a rookie performance/capacity analyst. We even had a bunch of IEBCOPY jobs contend for a single control card on a reel that said: C I=IN,O=OUT Of course, when they put it to disk, they had only listened to one of my recomendations. They did it with DISP=OLD -teD (The secret to success is sincerity. If you can fake that, you've got it made!) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
