Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-12 Thread Larry Israel
Thanks to everyone for the good wishes. Not much to take a picture of. The HMC and a 3270 sit at the operator's table. And the 9672 is just a big refrigerator-sized black box without any lights on the outside. However, if I can figure out how to run my new digital camera, and where to post the pic

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-07 Thread Gabe Goldberg
Sigh, this makes me sad and nostalgic. More than 20 years ago, traveling in Israel, a friend and I visited Weizmann. Being geeks/techies (me VMer, she document technology expert), we of course arranged to visit VM sites around the world. We received a wonderful/warm reception equal to any red-c

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread Shimon Lebowitz
Larry, I am sorry to hear that your VM is finally really going away. We at the Israel Police are still very grateful to you for the library of screen control routines you gave me back in the 80s, which is still heavily used, after being embedded in my WYSIWIG screen painter program. Enjoy your ret

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread Edward M. Martin
2007 2:34 PM > To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU > Subject: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing > > After slightly missing the closing date of end of 2001, it looks like we > will be shutting down sometimes between October 1 and December 30. > > One good thing about our

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread David Kreuter
...throw it a shiva not a wake! sad day. no virtualized linuxes I guess in their future David -Original Message- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System on behalf of David Boyes Sent: Thu 9/6/2007 2:48 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: [IBMVM] Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread David Boyes
> After slightly missing the closing date of end of 2001, it looks like we > will be shutting down sometimes between October 1 and December 30. > One good thing about our VM/ESA 2.4 system -- no new bugs in a very long > time. > I have been baby-sitting the system on a part-time basis for the last

Re: Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread Jim Bohnsack
That's the way I'm hoping to phase into retirement. Congratulations. Jim Larry Israel wrote: After slightly missing the closing date of end of 2001, it looks like we will be shutting down sometimes between October 1 and December 30. One good thing about our VM/ESA 2.4 system -- no new bugs in

Weizmann Institute of Science (WIS) VM Closing

2007-09-06 Thread Larry Israel
After slightly missing the closing date of end of 2001, it looks like we will be shutting down sometimes between October 1 and December 30. One good thing about our VM/ESA 2.4 system -- no new bugs in a very long time. I have been baby-sitting the system on a part-time basis for the last four yea