I've never seen the term "Plug Compatible Mainframe"; it looks like a backronym by someone who had never seen the beast. PCM is Plug Compatible Manufacturer, which is why the term was applied to, e.g., terminals.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Gary Eheman [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 4:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Mainframe t-shirt store Just seemed easier to write at that moment than Plug Compatible Mainframe, or PCM, which opens up another debate on for what PCM is an acronym. "Yo mainframe so fat it cannot be thrown out a window and must be lifted in and out with a crane costing thousands more in delivery and installation fees." Been there, done that in my mainframe career. Both in and out the building windows that had to be removed to accommodate the heavy mainframe equipment. On Fri, 14 May 2021 19:57:37 +0000, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: >Had I seen the term hybrid mainframe out of context then I would have taken it >as ZBX, but I assume that Greg meant a small system compatible with a >mainframe, e.g., P/390, PDT. > >-- >Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > >________________________________________ >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of >Tom Brennan <[email protected]> >Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 3:32 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Mainframe t-shirt store > >Maybe just for me, but what's a Hybrid Mainframe? > >On 5/14/2021 9:58 AM, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> That depends on what you mean by "mainframe". By the classic definition, >> those aren't mainframes. >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of >> Gary Eheman [[email protected]] >> Sent: Friday, May 14, 2021 10:25 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Mainframe t-shirt store >> >> On Thu, 13 May 2021 17:58:55 +0000, PINION, RICHARD W. >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> If you haven't seen this, then check it out. >>> >>> http://secure-web.cisco.com/127-m0Rgk2KvVVd1YOv2m0zSRN9stAg9WKS6Q9-z8f757Gxr6TV-q8N2GCpy_BZICAVMAZTFiNxjQ2PP4fajkbfT56jLCbF4lhR53Zb-CazxD2YmghpWZIxRmzoAg_KOEiWoaU9hx1mHede5G0mQNJkuFzvgW7t0b_848NkDGZC4cPuHCMmJBxSvJNIjTCOc1AfR8HiLD5H991l10g3YmUaHO4J2ZA82aMlDCMfc2Nfuk2iSgdWjNFhVG-Xi_YlQpShaQElVGJyMKqjwFqrYi1xSo7JPkFOXbEiWHzfHDmVhmBvZs-s_EaNBPxHVkaP8DoUBKX4_TbI16boanoi2oDApV1Js3yL3ElbighVAIBFgx-tkAsvFFjU3ApiS1rdUI-KNPOBrChRHYVOaqLp6GhZtiw01Vjg_m_jjaJ3pxI9UmEhJrH0-45V4yQcyvLMnS/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mainframestore.com >> >> As a guy who has spent more than 30 years at both IBM and FSI building >> hybrid mainframes for customers that I could both lift and throw out of a >> window if I had a reason, I can say that there are certainly two t-shirt >> designs on that site that were ill conceived. No thanks. >> >> -- >> Gary Eheman >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
