On 15 Feb 2016 18:24:12 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:

>We are currently in the process of restoring a 4341 to operating condition.  
>We have just last week corrected a fault in the power system, and are able to 
>power the system up and IML it from floppy.
>
>We are now deciding what operating system to run on the restored system.  Most 
>likely, we will run VM/370, but possibly we will run an MVS guest as well.  I 
>used to be an MVS systems programmer, but that was more than 30 years ago, and 
>even the rust has eroded away.


You could always run MVT release 21.8.  Just gen it as 158.  I'll try
to remember more details from when I did it back in the 1980s due to a
flooded out 360/65.  War story available without much prompting. Brush
up on unit control words for your peripherals regardless of operating
system.

Clark Morris 
>I would like to brush up on operations and systems programming, which would be 
>much simpler if a modern z/OS and/or z/VM course would suffice for the older 
>operating systems.  Have the operator commands and programming utilities 
>changed radically since 1984 (JES2, CMS)?
>
>Please feel free to reply privately if you wish to tell me how foolish this 
>sounds.
>
>Thanks,
>Rich Alderson
>
>
>Rich Alderson
>Sr. Systems Engineer
>Living Computer Museum
>2245 1st Ave S
>Seattle, WA 98134
>
>
>http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
>
>
>
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