16 Mar
1998
16 Mar
'98
10:17 p.m.
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(a)ans.net