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HopeHoops

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20. You've got a few years on me. I still miss machine code.

Reply to sinkingfeeling (Reply #19)

Wed Feb 15, 2012, 12:46 PM

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NASA Shuts Down Its Last Mainframe [View all] pokerfan Feb 2012 OP

I hope they're auctioning those off. TheWraith Feb 2012 #1

Z9s are still being reconditioned and resold by 3rd. party vendors. Nothing historic about sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #3

Agreed... Glassunion Feb 2012 #6

Wow, with our DS8100 and tape libraries, it's almost deadly quiet on our side of the sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #8

I've still got 3 of them sitting downstairs. Two Z10s and a Z990. sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #2

The best thing about the jobs around those 1964 mainframes Warpy Feb 2012 #4

good for NASA, but mainframes ain't goin' nowhere. n/t yodermon Feb 2012 #5

Considering I've got more power in my laptop than any of those, I can see why. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #7

Absoluetely wrong. Your laptop cannot even come close. And besides will it run sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #9

Yeah, good point. It is running Vista - spends most of its time dealing with THAT. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #10

The Z196's 96 microprocessors run at 5.2GHz and can run anything from sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #11

We're not talking 1964 here, are we. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #12

As already pointed out, the Z9 is less than 7 years old muriel_volestrangler Feb 2012 #13

No, we're talking current stuff like your laptop and my mainframe. sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #14

Sorry. I picked up on the post about 1964. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #15

It's OK, you do realize that in 1964 there were no laptops or PCs at all. So there sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #16

Yeah, I know. But my laptop can kick the shit out of anything around back then!!! HopeHoops Feb 2012 #17

Yeah, but I love my mainframes! Started out key-punching for a 1401 sinkingfeeling Feb 2012 #19

You've got a few years on me. I still miss machine code. HopeHoops Feb 2012 #20

Me, too. Took a Fortran class in 1963. MineralMan Feb 2012 #18

I thought comercial supercomputers were still called "mainframes"? Odin2005 Feb 2012 #21

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