On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 09:32:25PM +0100, Pontus Pihlgren wrote:
If they have unibus peripherals you might need a qbus vax with a
bridge to unibus.
Hmm I wonder if such a thing exists. Unibus-to-qbus
exists at least.
/P
Yeah, right but then again what unibus unique peripherals would a payroll program need other than disks and tape drives :-/
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Van: Pontus Pihlgren
Verzonden: maandag 10 november 2014 21:32
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Seems Like there might a consulting Job here for someone on this list
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:11:39PM +0100, Hans Vlems wrote:
Perhaps I'd better sell them one of my many VAXstation 4000-60's .
If they would have a vaxcluster license I might even sell them two units :-)
Or would two VAX 4000-105A's with a DSSI bus be a better solution....
Hans
If they have unibus peripherals you might need a qbus vax with a
bridge to unibus.
/P
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Seems Like there might a consulting Job here for someone on this list
On 11/10/2014 09:38 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Hawaii seems to still be running a 780 with Cobol application to process
its state payroll:
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
A consulting job...or a freight account!
-Dave
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Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Mon, Nov 10, 2014 at 08:11:39PM +0100, Hans Vlems wrote:
Perhaps I'd better sell them one of my many VAXstation 4000-60's .
If they would have a vaxcluster license I might even sell them two units :-)
Or would two VAX 4000-105A's with a DSSI bus be a better solution....
Hans
If they have unibus peripherals you might need a qbus vax with a
bridge to unibus.
/P
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Seems Like there might a consulting Job here for someone on this list
On 11/10/2014 09:38 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Hawaii seems to still be running a 780 with Cobol application to process
its state payroll:
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
A consulting job...or a freight account!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
Perhaps I'd better sell them one of my many VAXstation 4000-60's .
If they would have a vaxcluster license I might even sell them two units :-)
Or would two VAX 4000-105A's with a DSSI bus be a better solution....
Hans
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Van: Dave McGuire
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Onderwerp: Re: [HECnet] Seems Like there might a consulting Job here for someone on this list
On 11/10/2014 09:38 AM, Clem Cole wrote:
Hawaii seems to still be running a 780 with Cobol application to process
its state payroll:
http://www.civilbeat.com/2014/11/civil-bytes-our-new-governor-should-upgrad…
A consulting job...or a freight account!
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
New Kensington, PA
On Sun, 12 Oct 2014, Jordi Guillaumes i Pons wrote:
It seems like IBM has finally caught up with DEC in respect to file management. The latest and newest version of zOS delivers us...
(For the ones who don't understand IBM-esse, they are going to support a sort of "file versioning").
[cut]
For a second there I thought when you said "caught up" equaled "hobbyist."
I have never been so disappointed! ;) ;)
However, interesting that they are implementing file versioning after all this time ...
Fred
Just a little bit of trolling...
It seems like IBM has finally caught up with DEC in respect to file management. The latest and newest version of zOS delivers us...
Tada!
PDSE member generations!
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/#!/SSLTBW_2.1.0/com.ibm.zos.v…
(For the ones who don't understand IBM-esse, they are going to support a sort of "file versioning").
Now I'll go back to RSX11 and VMS to look for more "cutting edge" features IBM could add to zOS...
Jordi Guillaumes i Pons
jg at jordi.guillaumes.name
HECnet: BITXOV::JGUILLAUMES
Must be a link to SG1:
$ ncp sho act area
Active Area Volatile Summary as of 27-SEP-2014 12:58:35
Area State Circuit Next node to area
3 reachable 3.47 (RVDSXL)
7 reachable TCP-19-41 19.41 (SG1)
19 reachable TCP-19-41 19.41 (SG1)
20 reachable TCP-19-41 19.41 (SG1)
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Regards, Rok