Hi! Does somebody maybe know US or EU based individual/site/company where I can order punching data to cards (standard, 12-row/80-column punched cards)? So I send them data to be punched (no cards) and they would send me the punch cards by post? Have in mind Im asking about punch cards, not tapes.
Our Open #Mainframe Project the Software Discovery Tool is part of the @linuxfoundation Mentorship Program from June-August again this year.
We're lucky to have two past students now part of our Technical Steering Committee (TSC), and another who will be helping out with the mentorship this summer 🎉
Ihr erinnert euch vielleicht an die britischen Alteisensammler, die vor ein paar Jahren eine unfangreiche IBM S/360-Anlage aus Nürnberg geholt und nach Großbritannien gefahren haben. Jetzt geht's denen genauso, wie vielen anderen Alteisensammlern: Zeit und Platz wird zum Geldproblem. Also suchen sie jemanden, der Interesse hätte, etlichen Quadratmetern IBM Mainframe ein neues Zuhause zu geben: https://www.ibm360.co.uk/?p=911#vintagecomputing#retrocomputing#ibms360#s360#mainframe
One of my favorite things about working in the #mainframe community is the wealth of experience and different perspectives to things that us Linux distributed folks have taken for granted for...ever.
Want using man pages to be made easier? Lionel Dyck used Charm's gum tooling to do just that. Behold, Mantastic! ✨📚
His examples are on a shell on z/OS, but I played with it on Debian too.
"Once a customer builds an application or application suite on mainframe then it’s difficult or expensive to move to another platform so it’s sticky and the monthly payments keep coming in to IBM. If a new function is needed, the easiest place to do it is likely on the mainframe with everything else."
🐘 Recently, we welcomed the 🄳🄸🄶🄸🅃🄰🄻 AlphaServer 8400 5/440 into our collection. According to online information, it was considered a supercomputer in 1996 💪💪
The worst part about setting up zpdt is not the arduous licensing process from IBM, or setting up the OS, or IBM changing the product name every two years. Its having to sling around 80GB worth of compressed disk images, uncompressing them all and having to then deal with almost 300GB worth of disk images.
At least hercules supports compressed DASD images, jeez.
The World Depends on 60-Year-Old Code No One Knows Anymore
Every day, 3 trillion dollars worth of transactions are handled by a 64-year-old programming language hardly anybody knows anymore.
It's called COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language), and despite the fact most schools and universities stopped teaching it decades ago, it remains one of the top #mainframe programming languages used today
Was watching an IBM introduction for VM/370 (as one does), and one thing that surprised me was that even back then (this was 1972) they specifically mentioned "Oh yeah you can use this to have a separate dev-environment"
Alright, my experiments in compiling trufflehog on Z were an absolute failure. I'm thinking of rewriting it in C (yay....) for speed, anyone got thoughts or opinions? I'm wondering if written in C can I also open datasets.
And before you "reply-they", yes there's a python version, but not all shops run python.
Some photos were taken during my #mainframe talk at #AllThingsOpen, here's my narrated tour of exactly* what I was saying when each of the trio of photos taken.
The moo gun is all the rage, but I was glad to have this tool around when I had to desolder 48 DIL-16 RAM Chips from the IBM 3274-51R today. Seven of them tested bad, which gives me some hope. I'm not out of the weeds yet, though, as I still need to get the solder out of most of the holes. The board is very difficult to work with. #retrocomputing#ibm#mainframe#soldering
「 This entry summarizes a series of 1970s mainframe games that have been so lost we don't even have screenshots.
Before posting this entry, I scoured available )books, magazines, web sites (including those archived), and message boards. I also asked seve)ral dozen PLATO authors, administrators, and former CRPG Addict contributors--everyone I could find--for any additional recollections about the games]
All, I'm happy to announce that my game CICS Dungeon is out now. You can get a copy here: https://github.com/mainframed/CICS_Dungeon/ all you need is a mainframe! (Don't worry, a docker container with one is provided).
Just a note, I'm not a C programmer, let alone a good C programmer so pull requests that improve my code are highly welcome!