Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread Clark Morris
3 incidents come to mind. The first was a 2821 print controller that blew up error recovery by sending back Device End and Busy. Despite MVT being in its last days, we were the site of first discovery. The second was on a mod 65 where the CSW was getting stored x'40' or x'48' from a 256K

Re: Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread Pommier, Rex R.
Clark, Something ate the last half of your post. Rex -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Clark Morris Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 10:29 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re

Re: Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread William Donzelli
Something ate the last half of your post. Cookie monster. (5 points to anyone that understands that reference). -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to

Re: Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread Scott Rowe
Sesame Street? William Donzelli wdonze...@gmail.com 10/2/2009 12:22 PM Something ate the last half of your post. Cookie monster. (5 points to anyone that understands that reference). -- Will -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe

Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread Clark Morris
I'll try not to send the message before its time (reference to an old wine commercial) this time. And to Scott, Sesame Street should have called it the Cookie-eating Monster (and I resemble that). 3 incidents come to mind. The first was a 2821 print controller that blew up error recovery by

Re: Broken hardware was Re: Broken Brancher (was Re: Best IEFACTRT)

2009-10-02 Thread William Donzelli
Sesame Street? One of Cookie Monster's early appearances, before Sesame Street, was in an IBM training film, called Coffee Break Machine. Here is a 1967 performance of the same skit, on the Ed Sullivan show: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x1tmko_coffee-break-machine_business -- Will