I get it... I just heard from an old co-worker that sometime this month
they shut down the mainframe in Southern California that I worked on
from 1983 to 2013. That was my first exposure to an IBM mainframe, and
I think XA had just come out and people were busy fixing programs to
work in AMODE 31. There was a rack full of MVS microfiche and a viewer
at each desk. If we needed to send a dump to IBM we had to create a
tape and carry it across the street to the mail room.
On 10/31/2022 2:50 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:
I just shutdown our z/OS 2.3 system(s) for the last time.
When I came to school in 1976, the computer was described as "loosely coupled
370s". My exposure was via remote cardreader/printer.
When I started working here in 1981, there were still folks that had rewired
boards for what they had before that.
End of 2019, we moved from a 10 year old z9 to MFaaS with FNTS in Omaha.
Dave Gibney
Information Technology Services
Washington State University
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