Here's what happens when an 18 year old buys a mainframe...

[Mike Ross]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 3:52 PM, Jim Brain <brain at jbrain.com> wrote:
> OK, I have to admit, that video is impressive,  he held the audience
> attention better than people twice his age, and the sheer audacity has to be
> commended.
>
> Sadly, my zOS days are long over, I don't even remember how to configure LU2
> or LU6.2 anymore, and I got paid to do that.
>
> That said, I do not regret getting into "home" computers :-)  Man, those
> machines are heavy and bulky.
>
> Anyone have the zOS machine that was in a PC case (or is my memory off on
> that)?

Jim you mean the P/390? I have a couple of those yes. First ones were
Microchannel; later ones were PCI. S/390 CPU & memory on a card; all
other devices emulated under OS/2 or AIX. Could only run the earlier
versions of z/OS; they were strictly 31-bit only.

Mike

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