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Have you ever seen a Mainframe
Yes
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No
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yogeshwar_ade

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PostPosted: Fri May 23, 2008 2:22 pm
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Not Yet... But hope soon that time will come.
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nemo_budd

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PostPosted: Sat May 24, 2008 12:36 pm
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Once i have seen in ING data center in bangalore. But i can't remember the series icon_cool.gif

Thanks,
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bavireddy.subbu

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PostPosted: Thu Jun 12, 2008 1:56 pm
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HUHU - i have seen it
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cvijay784
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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 3:38 pm
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No
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expat

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:08 pm
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ravi_shekhar wrote:
HI ,

IT'S STILL A DREAM ,TO SEE PHYSICALLY BUT I SAW THE PICS OF
IBM 370 icon_cool.gif


Eeeeeeeeeeek, I used to run two of those in the computer room back in the 1970's.
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vasanthkumarhb

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 4:36 pm
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Waiting for the day, so, i can see mainframe.
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kedianirmal

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 5:26 pm
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Not yet,
But will not miss any chance to see it. Any possibility where can i see a mainframe in Bangalore, India.

Regards,
Nirmal
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Terry Heinze

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:05 am
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1st one I saw was an NCR 304 at Camp Pendleton, CA in 1965. They now have a tendency to be geographically separated from the programmers.
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Arun Aravind

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 9:29 am
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Hi i am working on a Z BC 102 Mainframe.... I do the backup operations on it.....
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drmadhu

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 1:15 pm
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I have seen the mainframe for the first time in Aug, 2006 at Center for Development of Advanced Computing, Thiruvananthapuram, India.

It was an IBM S/390 machine. There was a mid range machine too... a H-50.

The S/390 was an awesome machine. It was a pleasure working with that. Now, I have moved from there and, hardly get any chance to see the mainframe.

I suggest everyone ... never miss a chance to look at the mainframe... atleast once... you'll feel the difference.

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Terry Heinze

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PostPosted: Wed Aug 06, 2008 7:35 pm
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Nice pics. I liked the mainframes that had lots of multi-colored lights flashing in front! icon_smile.gif
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nanny

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:49 pm
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can any one post some pics of mainframe
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:04 pm
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nanny wrote:
can any one post some pics of mainframe
..??? what would you do with them..?

Search in Google or any other search engine of your choice..
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Anuj Dhawan

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PostPosted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:08 pm
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Ok..here I got some pics..

www-03.ibm.com/ibm/history/exhibits/mainframe/mainframe_album.html
www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/photos.wss?topic=12
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dfaillace

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 21, 2008 8:48 pm
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Saw two IBM 360's (a model 67, other unknown) ... love the dials, switches, blinking lights and keyboard! Almost got the front panel when one was being scrapped!

Saw an Amdahl 470 V6.

Saw an IBM 4341 & I thinks a 4381 ... nice book shelves!
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rlloydsr

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:18 am
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Hello

When I started as a programmer the computer room was accessible to programmers you could pick up yor reports, request tape mounts and have card decks executed. In most computer rooms there was also a keypunch machine for fixing bad job cards and such.
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dick scherrer

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PostPosted: Thu Oct 30, 2008 5:57 am
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Hello Mr Lloyd (sr) and welcome to the forum,

If you look around, you may spot more than just a few others who started on cards too icon_wink.gif

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Soundammal.S

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 12, 2008 8:16 pm
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Initially i worked in H30 and z900 machine. Now i'm working in z10 machine. I'm very proud of working in mainframe.
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new2cobol

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PostPosted: Tue Jan 13, 2009 3:49 pm
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I did get a peek at the z9 while at the client data center... the operator (or data center manager, who knows?) shooed me off before I could get a good look. So have I seen it? yes. really? well....
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Anitha Sekar

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PostPosted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 1:23 pm
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eagerly waiting to see .
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Girijesh

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 4:46 pm
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well i hope someday i will meet this giant!!!!! what do you think? icon_rolleyes.gif
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enrico-sorichetti

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PostPosted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:51 pm
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Quote:
well i hope someday i will meet this giant!!!!!


You might get disappointed, MF's are getting smaller and smaller
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Girijesh

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PostPosted: Mon Apr 06, 2009 11:57 am
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Good piece of information!!! icon_lol.gif
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srsathish

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PostPosted: Mon Jul 06, 2009 8:00 pm
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Hello all,

It was amazing to read the members experience who had seen the mainframe and those who had slept on it! Eat on it! Laughed & Cried bcoz of mainframe. It was truly awesome.

Any my experience is I would love to see it.


Thanks,
s r
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gearmoh

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PostPosted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 4:59 pm
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hi
i didn't see till yet.past 2 yrs working in mainframe .i might see in future icon_sad.gif
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