Ah the enjoyable times running MVS/SE1 on a 3033-AP system and experiencing ACR on almost a daily basis.
Mark Jacobs Sent from ProtonMail, Swiss-based encrypted email. GPG Public Key - https://api.protonmail.ch/pks/lookup?op=get&search=markjac...@protonmail.com ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ On Tuesday, April 7, 2020 12:58 PM, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote: > Really? 40-year-old mainframes? That's close to impossible, and certainly > ridiculous. I'm sure many of you remember better than me, but 1980 was the > era of needing a megawatt or so to generate 20 MIPS or something like > that. If you could find the parts and the expertise to keep it going. > > sas > > On Tue, Apr 7, 2020 at 11:44 AM Bob Bridges robhbrid...@gmail.com wrote: > > > In the original article ( > > https://www.tomshardware.com/news/new-jersey-cobol-coders-mainframes-coronavirus) > > it said “The governor of New Jersey made a seemingly odd call for help last > > night: The state desperately needs COBOL programmers to revamp the > > 50-year-old software powering the 40-year-old mainframes behind the state's > > unemployment system”. When I reread the article yesterday I noticed there > > was a link ( > > https://www.northjersey.com/story/news/new-jersey/2020/04/04/coronavirus-nj-40-year-old-system-adds-delay-unemployment-checks/2944985001/) > > attached to "odd call for help last night". So I clicked on the link. > > -- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
