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880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.I'll bet you were paid well for your knowledge of Big Iron. I remember the cost of the maintenance contract w/IBM to service just the...
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880251 replied to the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks?.At my shop the only use the mainframe jocks had for VAX/VMS was email. At some point, email was only for the IT department and there was...
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880251 reacted to kanewolf's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with
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By the time I started in software in the mid 80s, mainframes were on the decline. High costs were limiting them. Dec VAX and HP were... -
880251 reacted to geofelt's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with Like.
I guess I count. I worked on IBM 360 hardware and earlier. MVT/cobol, assembly language, CICS and so forth. I retired about the time the...
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880251 reacted to Nine Layer Nige's post in the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? with Like.
I used to have to communicate with the fossils on a regular basis with requirements. Me being a gun slinging "JFDI" MS Access developer...
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880251 posted the thread Whatever happened to all the 20th century mainframe jocks? in Opinions and Experiences.Back when I started in IT, PCs were called microcomputers and we were the lowest guys on the IT totem pole while the mainframers were...
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8Lol...I got banned from their site pretty quickly for catching attitude with some little kid they had as a moderator on the forum...
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880251 reacted to artk2219's post in the thread Question Why did Intel abandon further desktop development of the Broadwell-DT i7-5775c/i5-5675c? with Like.
I wouldn't say it was stupid, those tiles were very expensive to manufacture and they we're already kings of the market, so they would...
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880251 posted the thread Question Why did Intel abandon further desktop development of the Broadwell-DT i7-5775c/i5-5675c? in CPUs.Intel must've known the Broadwell DT i7-5775c could outperform most all other CPUs of the time (not always of course), yet they just...
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880251 replied to the thread What is your favourite movie of all time?.Whoever played Tuco really stole the show from Clint Eastwood. Those spaghetti westerns were better than any of the westerns made in the...
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880251 reacted to chriskillian7's post in the thread What is your favourite movie of all time? with Like.
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly. "You see, in this world, there's two kinds of people, my friend: Those with loaded guns and those who...
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880251 replied to the thread What is your favourite movie of all time?.Koyaanisqatsi and the movies inspired by it (Chronos, Naqoyqaatsi) are both depressing and intriguing (even though they have no dialogue...
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880251 reacted to ex_bubblehead's post in the thread What is your favourite movie of all time? with Like.
Patton The Great Escape Gray Lady Down Run Silent, Run Deep Das Boot (original German version, without subtitles)
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880251 reacted to Wolfshadw's post in the thread What is your favourite movie of all time? with Like.
I can't think of any movie that I've seen more times than Holy Grail, but that doesn't make it my favorite. It's more about...
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880251 reacted to mrdoubleking's post in the thread What is your favourite movie of all time? with Like.
Joker was absolutely amazing for me, definitely hits the top spot.
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