Check out the current discussion on the Yahoo! Groups Hercules-390 list. Just today someone told this same story!
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/12/05 08:00PM >>> ... > 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 The information in this e-mail message, including any attachments, may contain confidential and privileged information that is protected by law. It is intended for the sole use of the recipient named above. If you are not the intended recipient or the agent responsible for delivering it to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, dissemination or copying is strictly prohibited. If you have received this electronic mail transmission in error please notify us immediately at [EMAIL PROTECTED] and delete any copies from your system. <<<<GWAVAsig>>>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
