Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Rob van der Heij
On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 5:11 PM, Dave Jones wrote: > Yup, I think this calls for a day off, don't you? Sure, and a wrist watch with the date in it ! And not just for Jim, should we not all have a day off? I think for many of us this counts as a religion related holiday. Rob

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Jack Woehr
Dave Jones wrote: Yup, I think this calls for a day off, don't you? Hmm, following this group could easily give one the impression that the management trend in mainframing is definitely towards giving mainframers days off ... :) -- Jack J. Woehr# I run for public office from time

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Jim Elliott
> BTW, Jim's History of the Mainframe can be found on his web > page under the "Events Events including user groups" > headingnot the most obvious place to go look:-) Dave: My note did say to look on the Events page, but I have updated the web page now with directions. Jim --

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Kim Colwell
Very Interesting !! Really takes me back (My first computer system was an 1130 at school). (Slide 37 seems to have the date wrong ...) Jim Elliott wrote: Today, April 7th is the 45 anniversary of the announcement of System 360. In celebration, I have updated my History of the Mainframe presen

Re: 45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Dave Jones
Yup, I think this calls for a day off, don't you? BTW, Jim's History of the Mainframe can be found on his web page under the "Events Events including user groups" headingnot the most obvious place to go look:-) Jim Elliott wrote: Today, April 7th is the 45 anniversary of the announcemen

45th anniversary of the mainframe today!

2009-04-07 Thread Jim Elliott
Today, April 7th is the 45 anniversary of the announcement of System 360. In celebration, I have updated my History of the Mainframe presentation and posted it on my web site on the events page. http://ibm.com/vm/devpages/jelliott Jim -