I remember one time back in the mid-80's.... The company I worked for was
doing an annual report and a new customer system we had written and
implemented was going to be featured in that publication.
In came the photographers and and lights and the cameras. You can imagine
how the operators looked. Jeans, t-shirts, tennis shoes, etc. As the lead
operator I had on khakis and a button down collar shirt but no tie. Well,
that couldn't be shown!!! Never!!!!
So, the shoot coordinator goes off and finds three or four young, attractive
women that were well dressed and brings them into the computer room. Most of
them had no idea what a computer was. All of them complained that the room
was to cold and did not want to stay in there.
We had a good laugh and the publication looked pretty good as well.
Ahhhhhh...... The old days...
Ken
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From: Scott Ford
Sent: Thursday, June 11, 2015 1:05 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
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Subject: Re: IBM mainframe operations in the 80s
The wayback machine ...80s , just entered Systems Programming..in
Operations in the 70s before...man
On Thu, Jun 11, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Steve Coalbran <[email protected]> wrote:
NICE!
I remember it well...!
Give me a 3279, SNA-attached with SSRT (Remember that?!
SubSecondRespondTime?!)
Eat your heart out TCP/IP+LDAP+CITRIX+?!=CTRT (CoffeeTimeResponseTime)!
Then we could really work fast!? "and yer try and tell the young folk of
today... "[https://youtu.be/Xe1a1wHxTyo] :-D
From: David Crayford <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Date: 2015-06-11 14:35
Subject: IBM mainframe operations in the 80s
Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
This is a nice bit of nostalgia as I started my career as an Op back in
the 80's.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cwj6pfhWBps
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