9 Feb
2026
9 Feb
'26
11:50 p.m.
On 10/02/2026 03:31, Carey Schug via cctalk wrote:
there was a similar VM/ESA screen, IIRC.
in SHARE, we had VM/370 logo T-shirts printed in green and other colors.
I still have a bunch new, and used in the basement if moths haven't gotten
to them.
By the time you got to VM/ESA the logon screen had changed so there were
fields where you could put your user-name and password but the rest
stayed pretty much the same. Of course over time CMS was improved and
extras like REXX and XEDIT added, but they didn't break the old stuff.
I was just musing yesterday while testing a 3270 coax to USB interface,
how changes in the Arduino library and Python interpreter broke the
interface code yet the S/360 Fortran G compiler and the code it
generates still works on a modern "Z" box. I expect that the code still
compiles with the latest Fortran compiler as well.
Dave
On Sat, Feb 7, 2026 at 5:28 PM David Wade via cctalk
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<#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2> David,
Yes that SCREEN2 image is pretty good, since it shows the CMS version and
year (1985). An earlier version would be nice, but if that 6.0 stuff is
still representative of what the earlier versions would show, that's
fine.
Pretty much. There is a PDF of a VM/370 Release 1 Terminal Users Guide..
https://www.ibm.com/support/pages/zvm/history/50th/vm370ref.pdf
and you can see all the commands in there are the same as on the later
systems.