Old IBMs

From: William Donzelli <william_at_ans.net>
Date: Mon Mar 16 22:17:15 1998

> I think a lot of people fail to consider that the IBM midrange and
> mainframes were designed to run businesses without down time--the
> philosophy of the engineers has always been to keep those pesky hackers out
> of the system. By hackers, I mean real programmers. Of course the 360 was
> supposed to be an "all around machine," but from what I've seen, business
> rules at IBM.

That is IBMs bread and butter. Anyway, the stories of S/36s being up for
YEARS without crashing or failing are true.

> I would if I could afford the freight. ;) I'd still like to get a 5360 to
> run Displaywrite/36 folder extractions on, but I have to get the 'Vette out
> of the garage and install air conditioning in the there before I can even
> think about it.

I need to make a serious effort to get 240 VAC service at RCS/RI so we can
play with our IBMs (5340 and 5360). Those and the Intergraph VAX 8550.

William Donzelli
william_at_ans.net
Received on Mon Mar 16 1998 - 22:17:15 GMT