> He tries to restart the big machine, but that fails almost immediately. Turns out that the second command in the startup sequence is one that directs output to the printer known as 00E -- which the mainframe no longer knows how to use.
What does that sentence even mean? Any printer at any address would've been "known" much later in the IPL process and there was nothing "known" at the actual point of IPL. Again, the story sounds like a fairy tale. Adam ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
