Recent content by TIML

**************************************** A publicly editable encyclopedia, waiting for you! **************************************** I really recommend you go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Anyone can edit a page, you don't have to be a (free) member. If you do become a...

Here is a good little blog comment on Mainframe Myths. http://weblogs.asp.net/michael_platt/archive/2004/03/25/95835.aspx Anyone care to discuss the thoughts he raises? .T.I.M

Editors being one of my obsessions: I dug out today my old copy of SPF/PC This was/is a PC version of the IBM Mainframe editor environment SPF. Here is the current site for it: http://www.commandtechnology.com/main.asp?pg=home ROSCOE (which I used on the IBM 3090 mainframe) is a very...

Although I subscribe to the Hacker imperative (hands-on), I try to learn some things from the mainframe world too. I've had some experience with an IBM 3090, size of an aircraft hanger. I ended up as Network Control. Believe it or not, its a lot of *fun*!!! OK, so I'm unlikely to add one to my...

What is/was your most weird and usual items? I think mine was a plastic and metal ball bearing blue binary computer from the UK Open University. My godfather gave it me whan I was about 10 or 11 years old. Obviously showing early talent!!! It had strange white switches, and the bearings...

Free online mainframe access. I'm interested in online access to community mainframes and slightly smaller computers. Recently I've found these two: telnet cyberspace.org (A Sun/OS kinda thing) telnet login.cray-cyber.org (A real cray YMP!) Enjoy! Does anyone else have any good...

Beats, Freaks, and punks. As a serious socialogical study into the diverse multi-cultural backgrounds of posters, here is a little quiz and discussion: Did other people fit you into any of these above categories? As we all know those that weren't them were labelled them and those that called...

Micro$oft fined. Micro$oft have just been found guilty in the Eu of unfair practices and fined about $500,000,000. Of course they are going to appeal. Note: This is not the rants section!!!! .T.I.M

OK, what is your favorite and why? BSD? Which FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD? GNU/Linux? Which flavor? GNU/HURD (GNU's not UNIX) or A.N.Other? And why?? .T.I.M

How about claiming that windows 95 has/had true pre-emptive multi-tasking? http://www.seanet.com/~jonpugh/win95lies.html And that no-one else has it?! ;) .T.I.M

Anyone know the online whereabouts of any documentation on WAITS from SAIL on various DEC systems? This was the west-coast alternative at Stanford University, to the ITS system at MIT in the mid-1970s. I've found lots of references in online encyclopedias and some photos & the last goodbye...

Did you know you can telnet to an online Cray YMP?!!! (There are two other mainframes available as scheduled). They are looking for donations to help this worthy project. To make it easy for us, its running *NIX! Have fun! Here are the details: http://www.cray-cyber.org/access/index.php...

Hi! I'm TIM. My interest is wide ranging. I started programming when I was 12, in 1976. FORTRAN on an IBM mainframe (that I never saw). Wrote the programs in pencil on graph paper, sent it off, next week, received my cards & green lined paper output! It felt like magic! Since then I've done...

Hi, I have a question. I've happily installed ITS on a simh PDP10 emulator. This is just using the minimal system tape minsys.tape Question is how do I get other programs into the simulator? I'd like to run for example TECO or even EMACS (which I can run elsewhere successfully!!!), but they...

Did you know you can telnet to an online Cray YMP?!!! (There are two other mainframes available as scheduled). They are looking for donations to help this worthy project. To make it easy for us, its running *NIX! Have fun! Here are the details: http://www.cray-cyber.org/access/index.php...