Destination z article: Reflecting on Technology Progress

Reflecting on Technology Progress As IBM Z advances and evolves, varied skills are needed http://www.destinationz.org/Mainframe-Solution/Trends/Reflecting-Technology-Progress http://tinyurl.com/y9m9w8jc -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver

Destination z article: Mainframes Span the Globe

Mainframes Span the Globe Clients share variations in worldwide IBM Z usage Some brands seem ubiquitous worldwide: fast-food chains are one example. And though one might assume that the same cuisine is being served 24/7, somewhere/everywhere, a few individuals inexplicably want to verify that

Preliminary query about mainframe "environmentals"

I've seen occasional list mentions/discussions about mainframe environmentals (power, cooling, floorspace, weight, etc.). Obviously these requirements have changed -- declined -- over various machine generations, but maybe this is still interesting enough for a Destination z website article.

Walt Doherty - RIP

Father of economics of sub-second response time; wonderful SHARE/mainframe/computing contributor. http://hosting-11936.tributes.com/obituary/show/Walter-J.-Doherty-106121619 https://jlelliotton.blogspot.com/p/the-economic-value-of-rapid-response.html -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and

[SUSPECTED SPAM] IBM Systems Magazine - Jim Stefanik on His Unique Journey to IBM Image alt tag: Jim Stefanik

/Reg Harbeck talks with Jim Stefanik about how he went from setting up a mainframe in his parent’s garage, to working for IBM./ http://ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/trends/ztalk/jim-stefanik/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place,

Computer History (Was: CLIP?)

Remember http://www.computerhistory.org/ -- Computer History Museum. They love artifacts, documentation, literature, memories: http://www.computerhistory.org/artifactdonation/ Date:Sun, 20 May 2018 03:39:44 -0500 From:Brian Westerman Subject: Re: CLIP? He originally had well thousands

How Programming Affects Your Brain: 3 Big Truths According to Science

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-programming-affects-brain/ Funny, didn't mention effects on brain of learning APL or assembler. -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:

The Beauty of the COBOL Programming Language - DevOps.com

https://devops.com/the-beauty-of-the-cobol-programming-language-v2/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/gabegoldTwitter: GabeG0

Destination z article: Ensuring Data Storage Longevity

Ensuring Data Storage Longevity Backup and Archival Data Data comes in many varieties, related to why it exists and how it's stored: active, warehouse, transactional, backup, archival and more. I'll skip over the first three forms and focus on backup data (briefly) and archival data

Charles B. Wang, former Islanders owner dies, his attorney says | Newsday

Born in Shanghai, China, he moved to the United States with his family at the age of 8. Wang later founded CA Technologies and led several Long Island-based philanthropic efforts. https://www.newsday.com/long-island/computer-associates-charles-wang-1.22209693 I met him when he and Russ Artzt

NOTSP US Patent for Drone delivery of coffee based on a cognitive state of an individual Patent (Patent # 10,040,551 issued August 7, 2018) - Justia Patents Search

Coffee or other drink, for example a caffeine containing drink, is delivered to individuals that would like the drink, or who have a predetermined cognitive state, using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)/drone. The drink is connected to the UAV, and the UAV flies to an area including people,

The Yoda of Silicon Valley - The New York Times

Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.” https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/science/donald-knuth-computers-algorithms-programming.html ...plenty here on computers, programming, mathematics, typesetting. I've forever

Annual Enterprise Computing Community Conference

I don't think I've seen this on these lists -- it's been highly recommended to me over several years! --- 11th Annual ECC Conference, June 9 -  1 1, 2019 Marist College, Poughkeepsie, New York https://ecc.marist.edu/ https://ecc.marist.edu/web/conference2010 The 11th Annual ECC National

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

was left remained there and didn't pollute the river anymore. Wouldn't want to eat any of the fish out of that pond. There were surely many other stories that I never heard. On 4/13/2019 12:16 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Many years ago I had friends in old DEC building in Maynard, MA. They had story

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

No kidding. Long ago, monitor on a friend's PS/2 failed. Being a mainframer she was accustomed to calling IBM for software/hardware support -- so she called Support Center. They scheduled a visit. I was home, fellow showed up in unmarked white van, swapped monitors, cleaned up minimal packing

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

Indeed. Long ago, at Mitre -- relatively small account (360/50 running OS/MVT when I joined, 4341 and 4381 running VM as Single System Image when I left) that punched above its weight, we had an FE room with supplies/manuals/etc. -- including microcode listings as long as they were available

Re: Incoming | Computerworld SHARK TANK

Many years ago I had friends in old DEC building in Maynard, MA. They had story of periodic head crashes on monster disk drives with vertically spinning platters. They realized cause: trucks backing into loading dock hitting and shaking the building -- since platters were oriented

Fwd: Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks

? Forwarded Message Subject: Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks Date: Mon, 29 Apr 2019 12:41:17 -0400 From: Gabe Goldberg Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks This is for website/magazine I'd not seen before: https

Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks

Query for article on testing mainframe systems, applications, networks This is for website/magazine I'd not seen before: https://increment.com/ It's described: Increment is a print and digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale. It has an interesting approach,

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

Long ago I was asked for advice on proving that it was unsafe running multiple levels of classified material on VM, in a data center where the manager had -- of course -- insisted that it was. Whether or not that was true (and whether or not it could be proven), I suggested first

Re: mainframe hacking "success stories"?

I had a Sev 1 APAR against PROFS (or when it became OfficeVision) by pointing out that (at least on VM) sending a document with embedded .sy control word could, say, quietly format recipient's A disk (for those who've never touched VM, that's a VM user's personal storage). Tricky fix was

IBM Destination z - Of Elephants and Mainframes

Think back… think way back, possibly to before you were born. Think of the reasons why SHARE was founded in 1955, and the main activities of SHARE. Once upon a time, when electronic computing technology was still being figured out, each new machine was so different from its predecessors that

Re: Help wanted | Computerworld Shark Tank

A friend had this long-ago story: he worked at Data General, on a not-yet released product. He saw an ad seeking someone with n years experience on the product. He was the only person on the planet qualified and he wasn't looking to change jobs. Uh oh. On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 7:37 AM Mark

DASD nostalgia

I mentioned a while ago remembering a friend's long-ago story about disk head crashes at DEC, resolved by rotating drive cabinet so platters aligned with loading dock of old mill building (rather than rotating perpendicular to dock's orientation). Problem had been head crashes when trucks

Re: it was 20 years ago today

Just came across:  ‘Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting’: An Oral History of Y2K https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a30338692/y2k-panic/ I still have about half the Y2K books I bought, figure they'll go with the next Great Purge. Circa 1995 I thought of doing "The Y2K

Re: it was 20 years ago today

And this mess: https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/12/23/style/y2k-bug-millennials.html On 1/3/2020 1:23 PM, Gabe Goldberg wrote: Just came across:  ‘Here We Go. The Chaos Is Starting’: An Oral History of Y2K https://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/security/a30338692/y2k-panic/ I

IBM will offer free COBOL training to address overloaded unemployment systems

IBM is releasing a free training course next week to teach the 60-year-old programming language COBOL to coders. It is also launching a forum where those with knowledge of the language can be matched with companies in need of help maintaining their critical systems. The moves come in response

Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

Better article: https://freedomafterthesharks.com/2016/06/27/exactly-what-is-cobol-and-why-is-cobol-still-a-widely-used-language-in-it/ Phil Smith III said: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus Reasonably bad article but kinda

Re: Here we go again

When I joined Mitre Corporation in 1971, my first TIAA-CREF end-of-year retirement statement predicted benefits I'd receive starting February 1, 2012. I suspect they'd been calculating/storing/displaying 21st century dates long before they needed one for me. Banks, insurance companies,

Fwd: IBM Alumni Directory

I'm just the messenger... Forwarded Message Subject:IBM Alumni Directory Date: Tue, 30 Jun 2020 15:59:22 + (UTC) From: Bob McGrath To: i...@agentsadvanceinc.com Spending time updating the online IBM Alumni Directory while trying to shelter in place.

Re: With regrets, after many years I will no longer be following IBM-MAIN

For decades, I've wished for a list setting: Set bozo on ...which would allow the subject person to post and see posts reflected back, but not inflict them on anyone else. Talking into a bottomless well would get boring. Ed Jaffe On 8/30/2023 7:12 AM, Kirk Wolf wrote: Dear

Re: Help for US Talent

Mostly true. Except when I was leaving my first job at IBM/Poughkeepsie (IBM was great place to start career, but I hated rural POK having grown up and attended college in New York City) I told recruiters to focus on NY and Boston, where I had friends and relatives. A recruiter who didn't

Buttons, we got buttons...

Bill Bitner (just retired from IBM Endicott after 36 years 11 months) has a SHARE/VM/etc. button collection. At recent VM Workshop celebrating VM's 50th anniversary, I promised to share mine, send him any he'd like to add to his trove. So here are lots of buttons spanning decades! Spread

Looked at Destination Z lately?

www.destinationz.org isn't quite what one would expect for IBM's mainframe community website. Did someone let domain registration expire, was it hacked or redirected? -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042

NOTSP The Latin of Software Code Is Thriving - The New York Times

Next time you laugh at musty old tech, remember that new technologies are often built on it. Caitlin Mooney is 24 years old and infatuated with technology that dates to the age of Sputnik. Mooney, a recent New Jersey Institute of Technology graduate in computer science, is a fan of

Re: IBM ordered to pay $1.6b to BMC

I don't have a dog in this ridiculous fight -- though I've also lived a career based on IBM mainframes, including working for IBM. I long ago sold my shares because the company was sadly heading downhill. But I'll chime in anyway. I was apparently correct because IBM shares are now at about

Museum Restores 21 Rare Videos from Legendary 1976 Computing Conference - Slashdot

https://developers.slashdot.org/story/22/06/12/0023234/museum-restores-21-rare-videos-from-legendary-1976-computing-conference -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703) 204-0433 LinkedIn:

NOTSP Tech giants, including Meta, Google, and Amazon, want to put an end to leap seconds | ZDNet

For decades, we've used leap seconds to keep our computers in sync with Earth's rotation time. Now, Meta and many others argue that new leap seconds are more trouble than they're worth. In her hit song, Cher sang, "If I could turn back time ." For

How to Make (IBM) Corporate Holiday Parties Even More Awkward?

IBM — then called “The Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company” — was founded in 1911 when a bunch of smaller companies combined into one larger one. At its inception, IBM had roughly 1,300 employees, making it a large employer on day one. And when Thomas J. Watson joined the company in 1914,

Re: Songs of the IBM

That matches what I heard somewhere about IBM's policies (at least back then) on liquor and sex: Not on IBM time or property. "Farley, Peter" said: I was told that TJ Junior was a teetotaler - frowned highly on any kind of alcohol consumption and didn't like to promote anyone who imbibed.

ChatGPT writes mainframe jokes for St. Patrick;s

Tech Funny: Happy St. Patrick's AI | TechBeacon He asked Bing AI to come up with several jokes and other funny tidbits about TechBeacon's coverage areas—all with a St. Patrick's Day twist. https://techbeacon.com/enterprise-it/tech-funny-happy-st-patricks-ai

Want to declutter? Here's a good home for ... stuff

System Source Computer Museum -- https://museum.syssrc.com/ Contact: Bob Roswell brosw...@syssrc.com Brendan Becker bloopmus...@gmail.com ...about potential donations. I toured the place last week, it's amazing -- huge and diverse collection, nicely displayed. Great curators, hungry for more

Tribute: Niklaus Wirth, 1934-2024 - The New Stack

Remembering the creator of Pascal, a champion of lean and elegant code, and a vital figure in the evolution of software development. https://thenewstack.io/tribute-niklaus-wirth-1934-2024/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place,

One of the Internet’s Oldest Software Archives Is Shutting Down | WIRED

The Hobbes OS/2 Archive has been an institution for over three decades. Soon, it’ll be gone. https://www.wired.com/story/hobbes-os2-archive-shutting-down/ -- Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc. g...@gabegold.com 3401 Silver Maple Place, Falls Church, VA 22042 (703)

IBM and the Transformation of Corporate Design - CHM

Until the arrival of Elliot Noyes as IBM consulting director of design, IBM’s many office products were a confusion of styles: from 1930s-era punched card equipment—complete with steel Queen Anne legs—to room sized computers inflected with mid-century styling, festooned with tiny signal lamps.

Re: Learning one's tools

I recently argued with someone -- not here! -- when he was enthusiastic about AI generating code. Poof, no programmers, he said. What about bugs, I asked? Human-generated code has bugs, so will AI coding, since it will be trained on ... human coding. No problem he said, people will check the

Re: Upgrade by cutting a wire?

Yes-and-no, sort-of: On September 23, 1970, IBM announced the Model 145, a third model of the System/370, which was the first model to feature semiconductor main memory made from monolithic integrated circuits and was scheduled for delivery in the late summer of 1971. All subsequent S/370

Re: Fw: BXLE instruction

Thank you, Bill Collier, for your note reminding me of the fun we had in those days (Summer 1968) when you taught and I attended hardware/software/architecture/programming classes. From: William Collier Sent: Wednesday, November 2, 2022 11:27 AM To: Seymour J Metz Subject: BXLE instruction

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