My, hasn’t storage capacity changed over the years.
DaleI’ve talked about working with IBM Mainframes before. I saw this picture over at Alfred Thompson’s blog, and it brought back some memories. Westpac Bank losing a whole data centre…
The mighty IBM 3800
Laser printers use two types of fusion to fuse toner to paper, hot fusion, and cold fusion. I’ve only seen cold fusion used once. StorageTek used to make mainframe printers…
“We don’t do that here.”
It’s amazing how some companies manage to function, or even survive. I worked with a company who operated a large IBM Mainframe network. Now back in the day (late 1980’s),…
The Blinkenlights were so pretty.
I had to descend one level, to check out one of our systems. I could see though the access door window, that the lights on the whole floor were out.…
Why we ran the biggest ICL shop in the Southern Hemisphere.
State Bank Victoria (SBV) used to run IBM & ICL Mainframes. The IBM Mainframes were a 3084, 3090-600J, System 36 & 4341. The main processing was performed on the 3090. …
“No-Lone Zone” at State Bank Victoria
The first mainframe I ever IML’d was the IBM 4341. The 4341 was released in 1979. Our 4341 was superseded by the 3090-600J. IBM had released the 3090 family in…
“What’s this ZNET command script do then?”
One of the functions of the Network Operations Group had was managing the IBM Mainframe network. Let’s say 2,500 terminals in all. Now, back in those days, there was a…
Hitting the big red switch
Hitting the Big Red Button should be nobodies idea of testing whether something works. But I've worked with computer operators who think that is a way of powering down a…
You’d have to have worked with Mainframes to understand.
Source: ACS Bulletin, July 1990