On Wed, Jun 07, 2017 at 06:04:49AM -0400, Edward Finnell wrote: > Ibm-main is 31! > > Been quite a ride. Kudos to Darren for tending us this long and all the > developers and coders who have helped us travel the Maze of MVS. I know I > learned a lot and saved me countless hours digging thru control blocks and > reading the manuals-TNL's and all. Salud!
Ugh. At first look I thought that was to be about retirement. 31 years? Like, there might be an archive of this group going back to 1986? I ask, because such an archive could be interesting to read if someone preferred to relax oneself while reading such a bunch of ugly, full of uninteligible mumbojumboshortnames messages relating pecularities of old (by today's standards) operating systems on their old (by today's standards) hosting hardware. Yes, I guess it shows my depravity[1] that I even consider looking at such an archive. But I suspect there is no such archive, isn't it? I mean, somewhat accessible from the net, via ftp or gopher, maybe? [1] Not only I am depraved[2], I even have a keen interest in old (so called classic) computing stuff. In case anybody wonders why, I find it to be good motivator for learning about multitude of things. So far, I only had time for reading (and not very much, broad or deep), but I have not touched old system in the last twenty years or so (and that was middle-aged system at that particular time) so I guess it must be love or maybe even a hobby? [2] I know, I know, Friday is a day for such topics. -- Regards, Tomasz Rola -- ** A C programmer asked whether computer had Buddha's nature. ** ** As the answer, master did "rm -rif" on the programmer's home ** ** directory. And then the C programmer became enlightened... ** ** ** ** Tomasz Rola mailto:tomasz_r...@bigfoot.com ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
