Re: Xephon, are they still in business? NOT ANYMORE!!!

2008-05-09 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
) - Original Message From: Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:49:13 AM Subject: Fw: Xephon, are they still in business? To follow-up on my attempts to contact someone at Xephon, I finally got a response back from someone at TCI. According

Re: Xephon, are they still in business? NOT ANYMORE!!!

2008-05-09 Thread Daniel McLaughlin
Sorry to hear about Xephon as I sent them some PROFS and VM programs years ago. Any chance some of the archived stuff could be put in a DB or on a CBT somewhere? Daniel McLaughlin Z-Series Systems Programmer Information Communications Technology Crawford Company 4680 N. Royal Atlanta

Re: Xephon, are they still in business? NOT ANYMORE!!!

2008-05-09 Thread Jim Harrison
, Suite 800 | Dallas, TX 75243 | 214-340-2147 Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) - Original Message From: Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Thursday, May 8, 2008 7:49:13 AM Subject: Fw: Xephon, are they still in business? To follow-up

Fw: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-05-08 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
From: Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN Mailinglist ibm-main@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:17:31 AM Subject: Xephon, are they still in business? Is Xephon still in business? I'm subscribed to their TCP/SNA quarterly, but I have not received the March 2008 issue yet

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-21 Thread Rich Smrcina
Yes, CAVMEN still meets quarterly in the north Chicago suburbs. Take a look at http://www.cavmen.org. Glen Gasior wrote: I knew some VM'ers that belonged to something called CAVEMEN, is that still active ? -- Rich Smrcina VM Assist, Inc. Phone: 414-491-6001 Ans Service: 360-715-2467

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-21 Thread Glenn Miller
Use this URL for the Chicago Area VM ( and Linux ) ENthusiasts: http://cavmen.home.comcast.net Glenn Miller -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message:

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-20 Thread Glen Gasior
I knew some VM'ers that belonged to something called CAVEMEN, is that still active ? On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 8:59 PM, Thomas Kern [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You mean a 'new' technology like this reference? VMSHARE has been the conferencing system of the VM Cluster of SHARE since August 1976.

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-18 Thread Kenneth E Tomiak
No magic link nor telephone number, I wrote an article for Xephon in CICS Update and they recently contacted me to get some information. The email address used tcipubs.com and www.tcipubs.com shows both xephon and z Journal. Perhaps the president of z Journal also snubbed you. By November 2007

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Mark Yuhas
Tell me how you got them to respond. I had a subscription to z/OS Update. I had problems with delivering the issues on time. Finally, I had to send emails requesting the issues. I tried calling but the message box always was full. Eventually in November of 2007, my subscription expired. I

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Ian
Xephon did a great job in providing this service through the years. But in this day and age I don't see the need for an expensive service like this. If you look at the open source communities you will see lots of code and ideas freely exchanged between users. Apart from the several listservers

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Tom Schmidt
On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 13:11:47 -0500, Ian wrote: Xephon did a great job in providing this service through the years. But in this day and age I don't see the need for an expensive service like this. If you look at the open source communities you will see lots of code and ideas freely exchanged

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Ted MacNEIL
If you look at the open source communities you will see lots of code and ideas freely exchanged between users. Apart from the several listservers the mainframe community is the only one that lacks this kind of open exchange of ideas and code. Excuse me? There are lots of 'open' sites with

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Thomas Kern
You mean a 'new' technology like this reference? VMSHARE has been the conferencing system of the VM Cluster of SHARE since August 1976. After VMSHARE was closed down in August 1998 it was decided that the database should be kept available for reference. Read here the announcement of that by Ross

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main,alt.folklore.computers as well. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Ian) writes: I think its time for us(old mainframers) to jump on the new age technologies like blogging, forums and wiki's to preserve our

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-15 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
, many years -- up until the advent of the internet, which brought communication without travel requirements. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008h.html#7 Xephon, are they still in business? 70s use of the internal network (mostly vm370) included rexx evolution REXX Symposium, May 1995 http

Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-14 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
Is Xephon still in business? I'm subscribed to their TCP/SNA quarterly, but I have not received the March 2008 issue yet. It's not posted to their web site either and so far I have not had any response from them when I asked about it via their contact page. Thanks Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-14 Thread Doc Farmer
Yes, they're in business, but they're owned now by zJournal. Try their new address - http://www.xephonusa.com On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 06:17:31 -0700, Mark T. Regan, K8MTR netsfw- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is Xephon still in business? I'm subscribed to their TCP/SNA quarterly, but I have

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-14 Thread AlpTim1
-- From: Mark T. Regan, K8MTR [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 3:17 PM Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Xephon, are they still in business? Is Xephon still in business? I'm subscribed to their TCP/SNA

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-14 Thread Stocker, Herman
] On Behalf Of AlpTim1 Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Xephon, are they still in business? Hi! Just in case if you've not noticed. Xephon stopped sending printed issues and it's just pdf format such that each subscriber can download and print it if you like

Re: Xephon, are they still in business?

2008-04-14 Thread Mark T. Regan, K8MTR
That's the web site address I went to. Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991) - Original Message From: Doc Farmer [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:27:45 AM Subject: Re: Xephon, are they still in business? Yes, they're in business