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AndreaTvilling🙃🏳️‍⚧️🌈🌻🇺🇦🇪🇺<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mastreani" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>mastreani</span></a></span> if I ever feel boredom from lack of <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/coding" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>coding</span></a>, there is <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/Hercules" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Hercules</span></a> <a href="http://www.hercules-390.eu/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">http://www.</span><span class="">hercules-390.eu/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> where i can write <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/assembly" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>assembly</span></a> for <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/ibm360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ibm360</span></a> like there is no tomorrow. <a href="https://tech.lgbt/tags/High5" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>High5</span></a></p>
Arie van Deursen 🇳🇱🇪🇺🟥<p>Bumped into this NYT obituary for Fred Brooks. Somehow I had missed it in 2023. <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technology/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">nytimes.com/2022/11/23/technol</span><span class="invisible">ogy/frederick-p-brooks-jr-dead.html</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/FredBrooks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>FredBrooks</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/BrooksLaw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BrooksLaw</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/IBM360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM360</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/OS360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>OS360</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.acm.org/tags/MythicalManMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MythicalManMonth</span></a></p>
Tom Lyon ✅<p>1967: Great rant by Boeing's data center manager about IBM maintenance problems -- reprinted by UNIVAC! Full PDF: <a href="https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zb6s_Ti7ON-6DNGg8VB2VvLSbh72_bgM/view?usp=sharing" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">drive.google.com/file/d/1Zb6s_</span><span class="invisible">Ti7ON-6DNGg8VB2VvLSbh72_bgM/view?usp=sharing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ComputerHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ComputerHistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IBM360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM360</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/UNIVAC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UNIVAC</span></a></p>
Computer History Museum 🇸🇮<p>Considering the calories burned, it's one of the less efficient data transfers 😅 Good thing it's going downhill on the stairs...</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computermuseum" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computermuseum</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/computerhistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>computerhistory</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/slovenia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>slovenia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ljubljana" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ljubljana</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/softwareheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>softwareheritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/digitalheritage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>digitalheritage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgie" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgie</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nostalgi" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nostalgi</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/reeltape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>reeltape</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputer</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintagecomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintagecomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retro" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retro</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/europee" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>europee</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/retrocomputing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>retrocomputing</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/storage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>storage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/magnetictape" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>magnetictape</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/datastorage" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>datastorage</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/vintageibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>vintageibm</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ibm360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ibm360</span></a></p>
PrivacyDigest<p>Blast from the past. 😀</p><p>Part 1 - Training Video for Bell Labs' Holmdel Computing Center - AT&amp;T Archives<br><a href="https://mas.to/tags/ibm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ibm</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/mainframe" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mainframe</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/IBM370" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>IBM370</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/ibm360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ibm360</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/history" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>history</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/blastfromthepast" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blastfromthepast</span></a></p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/HMYiktO0D64" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/HMYiktO0D64</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
Jeff Morris ZA<p><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/update3" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>update3</span></a> now that I am finding my feet here.<br />Male, married, 4 children, 7 grandchildren and various inlaws.<br />Retired after a lifetime in the golden era of <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/mainframes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>mainframes</span></a> like <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/IBM360" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IBM360</span></a> and the <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/BUNCH" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>BUNCH</span></a>.<br />Understood <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/OO" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>OO</span></a> at one time but never cracked <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CSS" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CSS</span></a> properly.<br />Tinker with electronic gadgets.<br />Curious about where this <a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>fediverse</span></a> is going to go.<br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/photography" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>photography</span></a> (all my own images unless credited)<br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/AudioVisual" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>AudioVisual</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Africa" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Africa</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/SouthAfrica" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>SouthAfrica</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Wildlife</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Ecology" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ecology</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Conservation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Conservation</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Roadrunning" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Roadrunning</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/Jogging" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Jogging</span></a><br /><a href="https://hachyderm.io/tags/CurrentAffairs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CurrentAffairs</span></a></p>
Doug Henderson 🇨🇦 :flag_AB:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://dbg.social/@tim" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>tim</span></a></span> re memory patterns. On the old mainframes (<a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/ibm360" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ibm360</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/pdp10" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pdp10</span></a>, <a href="https://mstdn.ca/tags/Univac110" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Univac110</span></a>) we would get core dumps in a 4 to 6 or 8 inch thick stack of Z-fold printer paper. 132 chars wide and lines to fit the page height. Visual pattern matching was an absolutely essential skill when it came to finding interesting data. Eventually we got glass terminals and interactive tools that presaged the modern debuggers in use today.</p>