The Main Mainframe Blog
The folks at IBM tell me that readership at the Mainframe Blog is growing. This is not surprising. There are a lot of us "old timers" out there that have fond memories and many people around the world who are using, developing, extending, exploiting, and loving mainframes. You might say it is somewhat of a […]
Favorite Mainframes
We all have our favorite mainframes. For many it will surely be the new and sophisticated mainframe Z9. For me there are four mainframes that standout among my memories. First was the GE 225 at Lehigh University where I was an electrical engineering student (1963-1967). The programming language used was called WIZ and it was […]
The Mainframe
A little more than five years ago (see “in the news“) IBM announced that it would begin installing and supporting the Linux operating system on its mainframe computers. A lot has happened with Linux and with mainframes since then, but first of all, what is a mainframe? Is it a “main” frame, a main “frame”, […]
Conference Update
The conference circuit takes no summer break (see engagement calendar). MRO World was quite interesting in Dallas in July and coincidentally the Texas Association of State Systems for Computing and Communications Annual Meeting this week is also in Dallas. The Fall will be very active too. I plan to attend DEMOfall in Huntington Beach in […]
Seven to Ten Days
There are many things in the queue to write about but I can not resist commenting on an email I just received. Awhile back I was looking for some video conversion software and I found something I thought would be useful and purchased it at Sorenson Media. I then began to receive regular emails from […]
