Dunno whether this counts, but I got very far (but not quite all the way) to hacking Colossal Cave's "magic mode". That wasn't on an IBM mainframe; it was a DecSystem-10. On that machine you could stop program execution with a Ctrl-C, then inspect the machine code at your leisure. And I was writing a lot of stuff in that machine's assembler, so I could interpret it fairly easily.
But it was at a university, where my boss apparently had the university attitude: He didn't mind if I learned new machine skills, attended an Arabic class, whatever as long as I met his needs. Still, it was on my employer's equipment. --- Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 /* Being famous has its benefits, but fame isn't one of them. -Larry Wall */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Robert Prins Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2022 19:41 OK, it's not the silly season, but have you ever used your employers equipment to do something silly? And are not afraid to admit it? Well, I have in the early 1990'ies, and I actually got away with it, without losing my job. And talking about jobs, if anyone of you know of any companies looking for someone with 36+ years of PL/I, and a bit less Db2 and CICS, feel free to drop me a line. So what did I do? Let's go back a few years… ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
