On Fri, 13 Jan 2017 23:44:51 +, Lester, Bob wrote:
> Dartmouth? I got into quite a bit of trouble when I got a little
> over-familiar with the DTSS system at Dartmouth - one connected to the USMMA
> (among others, I think). This was around 1975/6.
>
> Crashed it once (via acoustic
Dartmouth? I got into quite a bit of trouble when I got a little
over-familiar with the DTSS system at Dartmouth - one connected to the USMMA
(among others, I think). This was around 1975/6.
Crashed it once (via acoustic modem in the library on-campus). Couldn't
believe it happened,
Much bigger than bees knees too...
On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, Shane Ginnane ibm-m...@tpg.com.au wrote:
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:53:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
... a TSO under VS/1 product that we were looking at.
Did you get the opportunity to try it ?. I thought it was the ducks
On Thu, 20 Nov 2014 17:53:46 -0500, Tony Harminc wrote:
... a TSO under VS/1 product that we were looking at.
Did you get the opportunity to try it ?. I thought it was the ducks nuts when I
moved to a company that had it.
Shane ...
Part 2
Cherished Computer Memories: Holding on to keepsakes can teach us about
a certain time in computing and help us relive our experiences
http://www.destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/Cherished-Computer-Memories
...thanks, IBM-Main, for reminder about button man!
--
Gabriel
IIRC there were 'Button men'. In Dr. Merrill's absence they would wear the
Button Coat. I'm not sure of the hierarchy. Barry Lewis was one in early
nineties..
In a message dated 6/12/2014 1:58:43 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
g...@gabegold.com writes:
...thanks, IBM-Main, for reminder
In m3ha77p31u@garlic.com, on 03/09/2014
at 03:47 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said:
... the executable image on disk could be directly mapped to any
address in memory w/o any further alterations or changes.
You don't consider a PSECT to be part of the image?
--
Shmuel
On 10 March 2014 10:57, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com wrote:
I would tend to use the distinction that for the psect, a private copy
was loaded and adjusted for the specific virtual address space location
... separately from (r/o) memory mapping the executable image with no
requirement for
was that these tasks were never
preempted, so it was permissible to have a register containing an
address within the module, as long as it was made relative before
(loosely) calling the dispatcher, which might result in relocation.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http
Guess the naming gnomes were trying to subliminally suggest it had no SS
instructions.
In a message dated 3/10/2014 1:56:17 P.M. Central Daylight Time,
et...@tulsagrammer.com writes:
IBM System/360 Model 44, optimized for scientific work
On 3/8/14, 6:49 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
In
b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.com,
on 03/07/2014
at 08:50 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com
said:
When working for a third party disk vendor I was in a computer room
and there was
Chevalier
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Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories
On 3/8/14, 6:49 PM, Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote:
In
b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.c
om,
on 03/07/2014
at 08:50 PM, Blaicher, Christopher
Now that's something to be proud of, and funny too!
Richard and Vickie Pinion
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From: Barry Merrill ba...@mxg.com
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 14:09:58 -0500
In 1966 we got 360/44
In m38usiot5y@garlic.com, on 03/10/2014
at 01:33 PM, Anne Lynn Wheeler l...@garlic.com said:
2714
2741?
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877:
and Metavance safe for all HUMANAty
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Of Blaicher, Christopher Y.
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Right you
as equivalent to
a VM/360, since both required more than basic S/360 architecture.
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 [OT ] Mainframe memories
Bob Creasy (manager of cp40 effort) sent me copy of his cp40 speech he
gave on seas
.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TSS/360
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memories
as undergraduate in the 60s, I got to rewrite a lot
l...@garlic.com (Anne Lynn Wheeler) wrote:
begin extract
one of the things that I did have lots of problems with was supporting
position independent code (mentioned in the tss/360 wiki article)
...constantly having to hack code to make in position independent
/end extract
Is 'position
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#16 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#22 [OT ] Mainframe memories
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#23 [OT ] Mainframe memorie
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memorie
univ ran fortran student
pseudo-random number generator
that was location-dependent.)
re:
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2014d.html#25 [OT ] Mainframe memories
I've used position location independence somewhat interchangeably.
In my use for cp67/cms page mapped filesystem and in tss/360 use
... the executable image on disk
Was the smoke black or white?
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Behalf Of Chris Hoelscher
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Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories
Maybe IBM elected a new chairman
In 531be625.2040...@acm.org, on 03/08/2014
at 09:55 PM, Joel C. Ewing jcew...@acm.org said:
I believe the CP-40 and CP-67 precursors of VM/370 required more than
just S/360 architecture;
For CP-40 the extension was nonstandard, but for CP-67 the extension
was part of a standard 360/67, even
On 9 March 2014 09:01, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net wrote:
Much earlier, someone decided that the power unit for the 650 was of a
convenient height for drying socks. A Selenium rectifier blew out.
Not a pleasant smell (the rectifier; no comment on the socks), as
anyone
On Fri, 7 Mar 2014 22:47:26 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote:
There should still be write inhibit switch for a volume, even if only
a logical one. It can be very useful, when running under z/VM, to be
able to define some z/OS volumes as read-only. It would be nice if you
could do something similar in a z/OS
There should still be write inhibit switch for a volume, even if only a
logical one. It can be very useful, when running under z/VM, to be able to
define some z/OS volumes as read-only. It would be nice if you could do
something similar in a z/OS LPAR.
Amen. We could really use this feature.
There should still be write inhibit switch for a volume, even if
only a logical one. It can be very useful, when running under z/VM,
to be able to define some z/OS volumes as read-only. It would be
nice if you could do something similar in a z/OS LPAR.
Amen. We could really use this
My memory was about an incident that occurred at an installation that
I worked at. Their DASD were 2314s (which were 9 drive units - 8 live
and one spare). The address of the drives were controlled by a round
plug that could be removed and placed in the address hole of another
drive. There
In
b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.com,
on 03/07/2014
at 08:50 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com
said:
When working for a third party disk vendor I was in a computer room
and there was an IBM CE working on a 360/45.
No such animal; I might
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Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
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Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories
In
b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.com,
on 03/07/2014
at 08:50 PM, Blaicher
On 03/08/2014 06:43 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:
In 68b5f70ac126ab4dad0e627d782a606a38f...@ufexch-mbxn01.ad.ufl.edu,
on 03/07/2014
at 07:56 PM, Nims,Alva John (Al) ajn...@ufl.edu said:
IBM 4341 running VM/360
No such animal; there was a CP-67 for the S/360, but VM was strictly
for
At 19:54 -0500 on 03/08/2014, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories:
In
b6c1eb4364c30e47950e0f68ef65f46708f24...@proditmailbox1.us.syncsort.com,
on 03/07/2014
at 08:50 PM, Blaicher, Christopher Y. cblaic...@syncsort.com
said:
When working for a third party disk
At 15:13 -0600 on 03/08/2014, Barry Merrill wrote about Re: [OT ]
Mainframe memories:
In 1972, the Corporation's Annual PL job read multiple tape reels
from each of
the 26 regional offices, so 26 tape drives were allocated to the
job, which took
over 40 hours across a dedicated weekend
the /*ROUTE JCL card to
actually state which colour you wanted the job to run on
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From: William Donzelli
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To commemorate the 50th
Anyone have 360 Emergency Pull stories?
This is secondhand, but I heard of operators playing Frisbee in the machine
room and-yeah, emergency PUSH button, no guard. I've used that story to explain
to people why there's a guard over it.
I also heard of a manager being in the computer room when
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Anyone have 360 Emergency Pull stories?
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Anyone have 360 Emergency Pull stories?
This is secondhand, but I heard of operators playing Frisbee in the
machine room and-yeah
One of the operators came in and set her purse on the table by the keyboard.
Sure enough, it tipped over and started an IPL
Interesting. We had an operator who dropped a book on it. Same result.
Bob Shannon
Rocket Software
I am sure everyone remembers raised tiles, right?
Well our cleaning people started to use some cleaning solution that
weakened the tile on the raised floor. This caused people to stumble
on these.
One Sunday morning we came in to test and found that someone (it
turned out to be a disk CE
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At a former employer, we had a red master EPO switch under
ibm science center was on part of the 4th flr of 545 tech sq ...
some past posts
http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech
but the machine room occupied part of the 2nd flr. it had duplex (two
processor) 360/67, 768kbytes memory, three 2301 drums, five 8+1 drive
2314 string plus one 5
My two favorite memories are:
1 - I got called at 0230 because first the system crashed for no apparent
reason, then when they went to IPL, it failed to. So I drive into work, go
to the machine room, and as I am trying to figure out what is going on, I
notice some tape rings on the floor. So I
Wayne -- did you ever find out where the tape rings came from, and who'd
munged the Write Inhibit switches?
On Fri, Mar 7, 2014 at 10:10 PM, Wayne Driscoll wdri...@us.ibm.com wrote:
My two favorite memories are:
1 - I got called at 0230 because first the system crashed for no apparent
reason
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of S/360 I wrote a blog that many of you
may have seen already but just in case you missed it:
http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html
Very nice, thank you.
One thing I noted was the bit about the colors - how each upgraded
for the memories
Next week, life as I know it ends. At the same time, a new life begins as I
exit employment and enter a brave new world of retirement/consulting.
I want to thank each one of the participants of both the IBM MAIN and RACF
lists. You have been of immeasurable help.
May love and laughter
All the best to you in your future endeavors.
Rex
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Of Hal Merritt
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 9:30 AM
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Subject: Thanks for the memories
Next week, life
If this is a work email, you can re-subscribe with a personal email.
And you can join the hercules groups and get Turnkey 3 MVS3.8J to keep
up you skills / develop solutions at home as a consultant.
On Wed, Aug 22, 2012 at 9:30 AM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Next week, life as I
Merritt
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Hal,
Enjoy your retirement!
Are you sure you
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Hal,
I've sent you a LinkedIn request to connect to your work email address.
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Hal,
I've sent you a LinkedIn request to connect to your work email address.
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*Specialist II - IT Solutions*
*Application Support / Quality Assurance* *PX - 47652*
*(561) 357-7652 (office)*
*(561) 707-3496 (mobile)*
*School
Hal,
How is that after all these years I didn't know you live in Houston? Good luck
in your retirement/consulting.
Chris Craddock
Sent from my cell phone
281-770-1950
On Aug 22, 2012, at 9:30 AM, Hal Merritt hmerr...@jackhenry.com wrote:
Next week, life as I know it ends. At the same time,
Sent: Wednesday, August 22, 2012 12:07 PM
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No particular plans as yet, just a vision. I just can't imagine walking away
from a career spanning four decades. But I'm being told that my perceptions
will change as the New Day dawns.
I
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