who here already worked with these ?

[James McDonald]

Michael Hipp wrote:
> vu Pham wrote:
>> Cool !!!  So far our list found three supergeeks who used 
>> supercomputers :)
>>
>> I remember one time one pretty old IBM technician came to my office 
>> for rescuing some problems on the old IBM server ( not that old as 
>> listed in the link ) my manger who used to be a system programmer for 
>> banks talked to him and both were glad with conversation like "Haha, 
>> do you remember the printer ... of the system ... ?", "Do you 
>> remember the huge disks ... of the system ... ?"
>>
>> I guess three of you will be very happy to talk together about those 
>> supercomputers :)
>
> I only go back far enough to remember 1978-79 and being a console 
> operator on the University's IBM 370/168. These machines were "super" 
> only because it was super to have access to *any* computer. As an 
> Operator, I had an unlimited job card. WooHoo! That is, if FORTRAN on 
> punched cards could be called computing. I bought the PL/I book but 
> never managed to slog all the way through it.
>
> I wonder what kind of psychosis I have to still remember the exact 
> version numbers of the operating system (OS/MVT 21.8F with HASP 
> version 4.1).
>
> Think I'll go sit in the rocker on the front porch and cover myself 
> with a warm blanket.
>
> Michael
My earliest computer memories is tape loading a game onto a Commodore 
VIC 20 at school. 5 minutes of waiting and then reload it again when it 
failed.

I had my first real computer experience in 1998 (flatmates Mac). Still 
haven't read Donald Knuth's TAOCP and haven't touched Vista or W7.