Bon Voyage On Mon, Feb 26, 2024 at 2:52 PM Sean Gleann < 000005c8f47efdd2-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote:
> This list has been a great source of ideas and information, although I've > never really been a 'contributor' here, but more of a 'lurker'. Whenever > I've seen a thread that I might be able to respond to, someone else gets in > first with a response very similar to the one that I thought of. > > So, I hope you won't mind me speaking up now to say that it's time for this > tired old mainframer to toddle off into the sunset... after 50 years of > working with mainframe systems, I feel it's time to hang up my keyboard and > call it a day. > > I first started on an ICL 1904 - punched cards, paper tape, core memory, > 60MB disks, GEORGE II - but quickly saw the light and moved to another > employer that used a 360/30 roughly 8 years after the series was first > marketed. Since then, aside from a brief entanglement with a Burroughs > B4700, it's been IBM all the way. > > I have to say that it's (mostly) been a lot of fun. From one aspect, I've > never really worked a day in my life. Instead, I've been paid a lot of > money to play on other people's expensive toys. > > Here's wishing all of you good luck and good fortune for the future. I'll > be thinking about doing some travelling - haven't made it to South America > or Africa yet. > > Regards > Sean o'bhaile na Gleann > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
