On 8/9/2015 7:57 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote: > On 08/09/2015 03:03 PM, Jay Jaeger wrote:
> > I'd pretty much left the 360 world after DOS/360 (that really dates me), > so I couldn't comment--except that I never trusted an operator to mount > tapes, if I could do anything about it. A lot of the tapes came from > customers who supplied them to demonstrate a problem. Losing one meant > a lot of apologies and begging. > Isn't that what removed write rings were for? ;) > Much of my big-iron days were spent in operating system work, so I > needed the machine all to myself in any case---you know, > middle-of-the-night block time, after the CEs were through. Build a > tape, deadstart it, watch the machine crash, get a dump, punch some > cards, lather, rinse, repeat. Come home to grab a shower and dinner and > be back in time for the 9AM status meeting. Been there, done that, though not with OS/360 - but with VMS. > > Those years have affected my sleep habits all the way to my "golden > years". They didn't do much for my social life either. > > --Chuck Chuckle. JRJ
