________________________________ From: zMan <zedgarhoo...@gmail.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Wed, February 16, 2011 8:25:31 AM Subject: Re: z/OS 1.13 preview
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" I pointed out in a reply that was a error I meant east of LA. Landing in LA at 11:30 at night and getting on the expressway is NOT for the feint of heart type people. With a very sketchy map and no sense of direction and no compass in the car I was scared. Driving on LA freeways in the day is scary. In chicago the directions are usually easy to find (except in the burbs). BTW just to correct a minor error that posted is this I flew into was NOT LAX but a smaller airport north(?) of LA it began with a "B" (Burbank I think) and that is all I can remember. I will not comment on locations other than vague east or west. I have a friend that has worked at area 51 (or what ever its real name is) and to hear him talk its a snore. ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
