I think it's time to give these young upstarts a "When I Was Your Age" tirade...
When I was your age, we breadboarded our equipment - none of those fancy macros for us, nosirreebobcattail! When I was your age, we knew exactly what all those flashing lights stood for. When I was your age, we strung our own core memory. When I was your age, we coded assembler by candlelight. When I was your age, we had a single screen color and were darned grateful for it. When I was your age, all we had for entertainment was a non-interactive Trek game. When I was your age, a megabyte used to MEAN something. And when they stop laughing at that, tell them how much throughput and multi-tasking a mainframe can do compared to their wimpy Windows boxes. How many servers it takes to match even ONE z/OS system, and how much floor space, electricity, and software maintenance that takes by comparison. How you live in a world where there is NO "blue screen of death." How your systems can handle thousands of transactions per second, when theirs clog up with only dozens. How your DASD can beat up their DASD. How you can't infect a mainframe with a virus. And then, make them buy you a REAL (non-Starbucks) cup of coffee. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of George Bly Sent: Thursday, January 04, 2007 09:43 To: [email protected] Subject: Just another example of mainframe costs. Hi I was in a meeting yesterday and I had to discuss the cost of shutting off our old RVA. It will cost over $1000.00 to just discontinue service for this box. Well our Microsoft guys said they could buy a small server for that price. Our UNIX guys said they have never heard of such a thing "Just shut it off and drill holes in the disk and push it into the dumpster". When they found out what I paid for maintenance per year for 500gib I couldn't get them to stop laughing. I was not laughing! Mainframe is a tuff place to be when everyone else in your department (including the boss) is half your age. Just venting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And it's not even Friday!!!!!!! Thanks!! George George A. Bly Senior Systems Programmer 331 Hayes Hall Information Technology Services Bowling Green State University Bowling Green, Ohio 43403 Office: (419) 372-7729 Fax: (419) 372-7723 Cell: (419) 260-4487 PS: A friend will help you move. A really good friend will help you move a body!!! e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
