Hey Connor:
My name is Mike Myers and I am a long-time (51 years) mainframe systems
programmer. I am presently involved in a Dept. of Labor project with NC
A&T State University, IBM, SHARE and several others to bring
under-served communities (women, minorities, veterans, etc.) into
mainframe apprenticeship programs. One thing I am trying to do is
understand the reasons that young people like yourself find Information
Technology appealing, and particularly things that would attract that
community to mainframes. If you have any specific ideas you would be
willing to share, I would certainly appreciate it. The ideas will be
incorporated into a presentation that will ultimately appear on the
Destination Z website.
Old guys like myself, who have been in the mainframe community for
decades, had our reasons to get involved years ago (most of which still
apply), but those details are so mature now that it's more difficult to
see what those the same age we were way back then see as being
attractive today. Any thoughts you have would be helpful.
Mike Myers
Vice President
Senior Systems Programmer
Mentor Services Corporation
Goldsboro, NC
(919) 341-5210 - voice
On 04/05/2017 04:57 PM, Connor Krukosky wrote:
On 4/5/2017 4:15 PM, Phil Smith wrote:
Agreed, though he loses partial points for (a) being overwrought and
(b) getting SAP wrong. But the first is obviously subjective and the
second is a nit.
If you check the description of the video you'll see my name there :)
I supplied them with about 1000x the amount of information they put
into the video since its a 'tech quickie' and what I supplied would
have made a solid hour long video or something.
I did mention SAPs but didn't go into detail about them. They may have
done their own research and gotten that info.
I'd say for the average person who thought mainframes were dead or
didn't know they existed, its more than a good enough explanation.
I helped with this video for the exact reason that I'd hope that this
would reach out to a younger audience who don't know about mainframes
or who might have thought they were old tech.
I may be doing a different video with them in the future on their main
channel which will hopefully get about 10 times the views this one is
getting. Again, all in hope that some of the younger generation, my
generation, will learn that the mainframe is NOT dead.
-Connor Krukosky
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