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My favorite memory of running mainframes was the huge red HALT button on the console. Would the unit actually start smoking if a bad instruction got processed...
note that old operating systems and source use to be freely available. both cp67 and vm370 were free and shipped with source and source maint. some of this may be picked up with respect to...
i couldn't find softcopy for my presentation ... so last night, i scanned the hardcopy. the pdf isn't bad, but the ocr processing was only about 80-90percent correct, i had to manually correct 10-20 percent of it.
I did find softcopy of the vm project agenda.
my talk was suppose to be on the history of vm performance ... dating back to spring of '68 when i was an undergraduate (38 years now). I had an hour and 60+ foils. i managed to only get thru the first couple foils ... so we scheduled a bof during scids that night ... and i talked from 6pm to midnight (room off scids, with interruptions for refreshments).
SEAS OCT 6-10 1986, JERSEY, VM PROJECT.
*----------------------------------------------------------* Monday 6th 1400-1445 Introduction October and to the VM project 1450-1535 Steve Bouch BT (project chairman) 1.4V Show and Tell and VM-related announcements since 1.5V SM86 Adrian Walmsley, IBM UK VM-SP Entry User experiences Vlady Priplata ----------+---------------------------------- 1600-1645 XA I-O Architecture Overview and functions used by VM and MVS 1650-1735 IOCP and sysgen Adrian Walmsley, IBM UK 1.6V and VM XA SF preferred guest planning 1.7V configuration, performance tools recovery Gisela Lotringer, IBM South Africa (joint with MVS project) *----------------------------------------------------------*
*----------------------------------------------------------* Tuesday 7th1400-1445 IBM announcements October and Bob Knaus IBM Endicott 1450-1535 CMS Update 2.4V, 2.5V Dave Getson IBM Endicott ----------+---------------------------------- 1600-1645 CMS Free Storage Management 2.6V Stuart McRae Systems and Telecomms, UK ----------+---------------------------------- 1650-1735 Using 7171s 2.7V nn, User *----------------------------------------------------------*
frequently the executive experience for managing IT organization is totally different than executive experience required for operating the rest of the business. this...
SEAS Oct 6-10 1986, Jersey, VM Project. 1
*----------------------------------------------------------* Weds 8th 1400-1445 Electronic Mail October Stuart McRae 3.4V Systems and Telecomms Dave Barker Rutherford Lab (?) (joint with OA project) ----------+---------------------------------- 1450-1535 VM SECURE User experiences Graham Taplin, Watson Calculating 3.5V (joint with IM project) ----------+---------------------------------- 1660-1645 Page mode printing on VM Mike Kay 3.6V IBM Almaden Research ----------+---------------------------------- 1650-1735 Business Session 3.7V including IBM responses to resolutions Bob Knaus IBM Endicott *----------------------------------------------------------*
*----------------------------------------------------------* Thurs 9th 1400-1445 VM VTAM User Experiences October 4.4V John Wilshaw, Metier ----------+---------------------------------- 1450-1535 Automating Operations in VM 4.5V nn, User (BT ?) ----------+---------------------------------- 1600-1645 Tape staging 4.6V nn, CERN, Geneva ----------+---------------------------------- 1650-1735 Highly available VM systems 4.7V Al Griefer, IBM Almaden Res. *----------------------------------------------------------*
SEAS Oct 6-10 1986, Jersey, VM Project. 2
According to this source: the introduction date for this drive, the IBM 350 Disk File...
*----------------------------------------------------------* VM New Users sessions ---------------------------------------------------------- Monday 6th 1600-1645 Introduction October and to REXX 1650-1735 Jeff Silchicken 1.6Y,1.7Y Scottish College of Textiles ------------+----------+---------------------------------- Tuesday 7th1600-1645 Faster VM with no mods October 2.6Y nn, User ----------+---------------------------------- 1650-1735 Introduction to using VMAP Per Kristensen, 2.7Y IBM UK *----------------------------------------------------------*
*----------------------------------------------------------* General Sessions proposed by VM project ---------------------------------------------------------- TOOLS - a Disk and Conference Tuesday 2.22 Manager 7th October Mike Cowlishaw, IBM UK Scientific Centre Winchester ------------+----------+---------------------------------- Tuesday 2.32 History of VM performance 7th October Lynn Wheeler, IBM Almaden Research *----------------------------------------------------------*
SEAS Oct 6-10 1986, Jersey, VM Project. 3
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