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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by walshemj on Saturday April 11, 2020 @08:45AM (#22841374)
I doubt that mainframes where turned on and off every day even later with super mini's we left them powered up
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by nosborn on Saturday April 11, 2020 @09:20AM (#22841532)
Every mainframe I worked on until the mid-80s was turned on by the first person to arrive in the morning and turned off by the last to leave in the evening.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by p_l on Sunday April 12, 2020 @04:38PM (#22850883)
Many sites had operations plan that involved weekly or biweekly "IPLs" done on weekends.
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Re:IBM will offer free COBOL training by walshemj on Tuesday April 14, 2020 @04:50PM (#22871268)
Doesn't mean the power was off
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