One of my memories is that for short period of time I worked for the administration group at my university, which at the time used a IBM 360/40. My job was to assist in the transition from the 360/40 running DOS to a IBM 4341 running VM/360 with OS/VS1 under it (OS/VS1 would let VM/360 do the paging). The first step in that transition was the installation of a 4331 that I helped with installing VM/360 on and to get the System Programmers used to it.
There was a Physics professor that over the years had helped the group with the 360/40 and he could look at the front panel of the 360 and tell you what it was doing at that time. The story I have, one day we were in the room where the 4331 was setup and he said, "I don't like it, NO LIGHTS! I can't tell what it is doing!" After we got done laughing about it, I told him I would string up some blinking Christmas Tree lights to make him feel better, which started another round of laughter. Anyone have 360 "Emergency Pull" stories? Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL Sent: Friday, March 07, 2014 1:04 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories When I worked for the Ontario government in the early 1980's, we had four 3033's all named after the original colours that they had been as 370's. They were all blue by the time I started working there, but there we signs over each one stating which colour they were and you could use the /*ROUTE JCL card to actually state which colour you wanted the job to run on - -teD - Original Message From: William Donzelli Sent: Thursday, March 6, 2014 23:12 To: [email protected] Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: [OT ] Mainframe memories > To commemorate the 50th anniversary of S/360 I wrote a blog that many of you > may have seen already but just in case you missed it: > > http://butmostlyaboutcats.blogspot.com/2014/03/mainframe-memories.html Very nice, thank you. One thing I noted was the bit about the colors - how each upgraded system had to be a different color. You were probably one of the very few shops that picked green and brown from IBM. These actually were standard paint options for many systems during the late 1970s, but as far as I can see, were almost completely unpopular. -- Will ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
