[Coco] Re: Has anyone worked with "big iron" sysems

[Richard E. Crislip]

Hello Jim

I worked for FirstEnergy/Ohio Edison. We had resident IBM FEs who reported
to our site daily as if they were FE/OH employees. StorageTek also
maintained an office at our site.

On 05/09/2006, Jim Cox wrote:
> What kind of hardware support was there for these systems?
> Did the manufacture have people to support these systems(I 
> know IBM did) but did the customer also do the hardware 
> support?
>
> -Jim
>
> On Tue, 09 May 2006 00:06:40 +0600
>   "Richard E. Crislip" <rcrislip at neo.rr.com> wrote:
>> I operated IBM 360s, 370s, and alter mainframes up to 
>>and including the
>> water cooled monster 3090-600J.
>> 
>> 
>>>    One of my first computers was a PDP-11 running 
>>>DECTAPE.
>>>
>>> John Donaldson
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Rod Barnhart wrote:
>>>
>>>> Closest I've come is a VAX running VMS. However, it was 
>>>>linked to a 
>>>> college
>>>> mainframe, so that might count ;) Unfortunately, that 
>>>>was back when I 
>>>> was in
>>>> high school, so those memories are a bit fuzzy at this 
>>>>point.
>>>>
>>>> Rod
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On 5/8/06, Jim Cox <jimcox at miba51.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm curious to know if anyone on this list has worked 
>>>>>with
>>>>> so-called "big iron" systmes.
>>>>>
>>>>> If so, I'm interested in reading about your experiences.
>>>>> Don't know if you want to share with the list or not.
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks!
>>>>>
>>>>> -Jim
>>>>>
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