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(o) Listen to the 1403 Printer Orchestra play your favourites, including "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head", "Born Free", "Blue Danube Waltz", and "Granma Got Run Over By A Reindeer" - With an animatronic Admiral Grace Hopper accompanying on 129 Keypunch! (o) Learn the ancient craft of Breadboarding! And be sure to buy a braided patchcord friendship bracelet at our "House of Hex" giftshop. (o) Watch the 3330 Synchronised Spindle Dance Troupe! (o) See the MVS Playhouse perform "Hamlet" - in Hexidecimal! (o) Observe Tape Apes in their natural environment! (o) See how ancient SysProgs survived in the days before Starbucks and Dunkin Donuts! (o) Meet the inventor of "chad"! (o) Join the Paper Tape Braiding Society as they unspool coding ribbons and form them into wonderous objects! (o) Make your own 80-column Christmas wreath! (o) Don't miss the "Dunk the PDP-8 Operator Into A Vat Of Piranha" Tank! Can you tell it's FRIDAY?!? On Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:02:36 -0400, Rob Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I can just see it now..... > >Enjoy this marvelous ride visiting the MVS discovery zone! (Note : >Minimum age requirement 50) > >(o) Watch as the operators perform punched card shuffles, sometimes >dropping and re-arranging whole payroll JCL streams in one go! >(o) Gather around and stare at the one shared green and black terminal >for all of your team ! >(o) Watch spellbound as the syslog comes out on a printer! >(o) Listen with rapt awe as old sysprogs regale you with with model >numbers of obsolete devices and how they could make the lights blink in >amusing sequences ! >(o) Be impressed at the wealth of possibilities at your fingertips with >24-bit addressing! >(o) Test your strength - can you lift the 3350 H.D.A all by yourself ? >(o) Survive the tape reel unspooling adventure ! >(o) Can you decode the wait-state mystery? > > > > >Rob Scott >Rocket Software, Inc >275 Grove Street >Newton, MA 02466 >617-614-2305 >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://www.rs.com/portfolio/mxi_g2 > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Doc Farmer >Sent: 16 March 2007 07:28 >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: "MVS Experience" > >"MVS Experience" > >When will this be a ride at Disneyland? > >========================================================================= ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
