On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 12:50 AM, Ed Gould <ps2...@yahoo.com> wrote: > I cannot remember where my first run in with VSE was. It was a LONG time ago. > Probably im the mid 70's (???). I think it was in St Louis at an IBM school > there.We were trying to set up a 4331 for our New York Office. It was either > there or out in the LA IBM office. All I can remember is that I did not like > it in general. It was not consistant on how it handled "things" (control > cards and the like) its been so long that the abiortion must have > reconcieved. I dio remember thinking IBM was out of their gourd for > propegatting it and it shouuld have been put on suicide watch (I would have > helped pull ther trigger). > I hated St Louis and I disliked LA. I know I was even brought out for several > interviews and they would not take no for an answer. One time I was out in > the high desert west of LA in the middle on nowhere. They now use it to land > the shuttle I think. at least they used a civilized OS there even though it > was supposedly top secret and we couldn't even ask for IBM help. > I know dos had a die hard following but IBM should jave just said no more.
"Desert west of LA"? As Marisa Tomei said in My Cousin Vinny, "Are you shooo-ah??" Maybe they shot you full of happy-juice and took you to Area 51, then made you forget most of it... -- zMan -- "I've got a mainframe and I'm not afraid to use it" ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
