I thought about what I said here and I wanted to make sure I did not come across as deprecating the zD&T in general. It depends on what you want.
If I wanted to live and breathe assembler and machine code like I did when I first discovered programming I would probably get a Hercules box. If I wanted "a mainframe in my garage" I would do as Enzo proposes doing. Me, now, I like developing software in object oriented and scripting languages, software that has potential applicability to a real-world datacenter. So if I were buying a box, it would probably be yes, a zD&T. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Saturday, April 16, 2022 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: HS student with question about small mainframe DASD Yeah, I don't want a mainframe in my garage, but if I did, I would want a real mainframe, not a PC with pretensions. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
