I've put a gallery of photos I took during the INIT HELLO Apple II conference at the System Source Computer Museum this past weekend online for anyone who might like a look at some of the festivities.
What a wonderful time it was! Can't wait for next year!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/blakespot/albums/72177720328016203/
@carlmalamud we have never met - but I wanted to say I was listening yesterday to the Geek of the Week conversation https://town.hall.org/radio/Geek/092993_geek_ITR.html with Robert Braden. as I was trying to figure out how #ARPANET worked on System/360 computers.
Thank you!
@stman @theruran @50htz @vidak @forthy42 Yeah, basically attacks on schedulers or any non-static component that is software-defined makes it easy to go that way.
And even "#TradFinance" hates that because they refuse to train new programmers for that stuff and they are too deeply entrenched to migrate away!
I just saw this ASCII text account called @hypernode.bsky.social & it reminded me of my UCLA mainframe days...
Anyone remember a real-time multi-player game on the #mainframe called #HUNT? You'd telnet in & control an 'X' on a 16x16 grid, firing bombs, slime & other weapons.
Man, that was FUN.
Random Old Comic: Shrinkage, Part II https://www.toyboxcomix.com/2018/06/29/shrinkage-part-ii/ Shrinkage, Part II #Beachhead #GIJoe #Mainframe #RipCord #Scarlett #SnakeEyes #Soundwave #Transformers
From #OBS packaging to #IBM #mainframe kernel hacking! Check out this expert-led session from FIT ČVUT Informatics. #openSUSE 
Linux on Z Development 
https://youtu.be/nIW4lFRdvCc?si=heA6wyK6xZ7NahBH
@isotopp Groß? Kannst du haben: Dieser seit 07/29/2006 online gewesene #ibm #zec12 #mainframe parallel #sysplex wurde im Oktober 2015 für immer abgeschaltet:
@leftpaddotpy "the #cloud" is a #mainframe for folks who don't have a sales rep / account manager at #IBM!
"#CloudNative" is just a short for "I can't be assed to make #reproduceable #standalone code and make tarballs!"
"This could definitely make for a fun weekend project to mess around with."
That's what @thomholwerda of @osnews wrote this week when he shared details of our latest IBM LinuxONE and Linux on IBM Z open source software report, and went on to highlight the IBM #LinuxONE Community Cloud!
https://www.osnews.com/story/142178/linux-on-ibm-z-and-linuxone-open-source-software-report/
Well, the weekend is coming up 
#mainframe
I dug into the technical Redbooks and scoured our image library to bring you lots of goodies around the new IBM z17 announced this month!
https://community.ibm.com/community/user/ibmz-and-linuxone/blogs/elizabeth-k-joseph1/2025/04/23/a-tour-inside-the-ibm-z17 #mainframe #IBMZ
And as always, if there's a card or close-up you wish to see, don't hesitate to ask, I'll see what I can find.
IBMs z17: Neue Mainframegeneration auch für KI-Workloads
Mainframes gelten allgemein als nicht besonders KI-fähig. Mit dem neuen z17 will IBM den Gegenbeweis antreten.
ASCII to Mainframe - IBM mainframes are known for very unusual terminals. But IBM made many different t... - https://hackaday.com/2025/04/08/ascii-to-mainframe/ #retrocomputing #mainframe #ibm
Use an MVS system by emulating a #Mainframe on #raspberrypi computer board. Full tutorial with the simplest exercise: creating your first data set! #linux https://peppe8o.com/emulating-mvs-mainframe-on-raspberry-pi/
@Sheep_Overboard I am going to have to object. I work for mainframes, and our host code is 98% COBOL, it's very fast and reliable. A lot faster than Java, C, C++ etc. According to a 2022 study there are 800 billion lines of COBOL in use on a regular basis. I admit, I write z/OS assembler, and am a bit biased, but COBOL is still incredibly popular.
"According to surveys by Micro Focus (2022), around 800 billion lines of COBOL code are used in production every day."
The origin and unexpected evolution of the word "mainframe"
#computers #retrocomputing #mainframe #hardware
https://www.righto.com/2025/02/origin-of-mainframe-term.html
How the Main Frame Became the Mainframe: an Etymological Dissertation - In his most recent article, [Ken Shirriff] takes a break from putting ASICs under ... - https://hackaday.com/2025/02/02/how-the-main-frame-became-the-mainframe-an-etymological-dissertation/ #retrocomputing #etymology #mainframe #history
Retro Big Iron for You - Many of us used “big iron” back in the day. Computers like the IBM S/360 or 3090 a... - https://hackaday.com/2025/01/08/retro-big-iron-for-you/ #retrocomputing #mainframe #ibm
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