[Default] On 19 Apr 2017 07:19:57 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main [email protected] (Vernooij, Kees - KLM , ITOPT1) wrote:
> > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of David Crayford >> Sent: 19 April, 2017 15:51 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Old hardware >> >> On 19/04/2017 1:58 PM, Timothy Sipples wrote: >> > We have a customer in my general part of the world that is, as I write >> > this, moving from an IBM mainframe they installed in early 1999 (with >> ~1998 >> > software releases) to a shiny new IBM z System machine. They have >> "only" >> > about 19 years (and counting) of new features and capabilities they'll >> be >> > able to exploit. :-) >> > >> > I hope they'll introduce themselves soon. >> >> Are they in Japan? We have Japanese customers running unbelievably back >> level versions of z/OS. >> >> > > >It sounds like when I started my job, with SVS on 370/158-168 machines. When >during IBM courses the teacher asked what we systems we were using and I said >we also had 2 360/65's running, everybody turned to see where I came from. >After a few times, I decided to skip these machines. As someone whose shop had a mod 65 running MVT that died after being flooded and who did his first MVT sysgen (previously done by headquarters) on a 4341 that was there to replace the mod 65 and later we had a 3081 after ESA came out, I can relate. Clark Morris > >Kees. > >******************************************************** >For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: >http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential >and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the >addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may >be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this >e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have >received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return >e-mail, and delete this message. > >Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its >employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of >this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. >Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch >Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number >33014286 >******************************************************** > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
