1st thing to go! You are correct. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of zMan Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 3:27 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories A nit: VM/370. Was no VM/360. On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 2:56 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> wrote: > One of my memories is that for short period of time I worked for the > administration group at my university, which at the time used a IBM 360/40. > My job was to assist in the transition from the 360/40 running DOS to > a IBM 4341 running VM/360 with OS/VS1 under it (OS/VS1 would let > VM/360 do the paging). The first step in that transition was the > installation of a > 4331 that I helped with installing VM/360 on and to get the System > Programmers used to it. > > There was a Physics professor that over the years had helped the group > with the 360/40 and he could look at the front panel of the 360 and > tell you what it was doing at that time. The story I have, one day we > were in the room where the 4331 was setup and he said, "I don't like it, NO > LIGHTS! > I can't tell what it is doing!" After we got done laughing about it, > I told him I would string up some blinking Christmas Tree lights to > make him feel better, which started another round of laughter. > > Anyone have 360 "Emergency Pull" stories? > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > Information Technology > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 1:04 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories > > When I worked for the Ontario government in the early 1980's, we had > four 3033's all named after the original colours that they had been as 370's. > They were all blue by the time I started working there, but there we > signs over each one stating which colour they were and you could use > the /*ROUTE JCL card to actually state which colour you wanted the > job to run on > > - > -teD > - > Original Message > From: William Donzelli > Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 23:12 > To: [email protected] > Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories > > > To commemorate the 50th anniversary of S/360 I wrote a blog that > > many of > you may have seen already but just in case you missed it: > > > > http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.ht > > ml > > Very nice, thank you. > > One thing I noted was the bit about the colors - how each upgraded > system had to be a different color. You were probably one of the very > few shops that picked green and brown from IBM. These actually were > standard paint options for many systems during the late 1970s, but as > far as I can see, were almost completely unpopular. > > -- > Will > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
