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Author: Anne & Lynn WheelerAnne & Lynn Wheeler
Date: Jul 3, 2008 05:13
> ..but "blind" is completely out of court here and cannot go
> unchallenged in this forum. If CKD compatability had been abandoned
> then I've no doubt that it would have broken thousands of applications
> and would have been regarded by the customer base as a total
> show-stopper when considering an upgrade to any version of "MVS" or
> "S/390" or "z/OS" without CKD support.
the issue (initially) wasn't about CKD being abandoned but starting with
MVS supporting FBA ... and transition period from CKD to FBA.
i was told that even providing them with fully tested and integrated FBA
support in MVS ... it would still cost $26m to ship the support and I
had to show (significant, incremental) ROI for that $26m (including
opportunity costs vis-a-vis spending it somewhere else). at the time,
the claim was that they were shipping as many disk drives as they could
build ... and therefor (at best) customers would buy FBA in lieu of CKD
... with no incremental revenue.
one business case was life-cycle costs ... there have been enormous
costs sunk into incremental enhancements to CKD ... that would have much
more cost-effectively done as transition to FBA.
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Author: DeanBDeanB
Date: Jul 2, 2008 05:39
If by chance any of you guys have a casio FX602P calculator stashed
away somewhere, I'd love to purchase it. It's a vintage calculator and
pretty much impossible to get nowadays. I used to dream about having
one of these when I was a kid, and I'd like to pick one up (before I
kick the bucket, you know:))
Thanks!
-Dean
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Author: DeanBDeanB
Date: Jun 30, 2008 12:53
Anyone know of a hack such that the TI-59 flashes the intermediate
results of a running program on the LED display, as did the TI-57?
Perhaps there is an Op code that does this?
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Author: CBFalconerCBFalconer
Date: Jun 29, 2008 18:29
"John F. Morse" wrote:
> Bill wrote:
>> DanS wrote:
>>> Bill comcast.net> wrote:
>>>>>>> I miss those days when consumers weren't brain dead and people
>>>> actually knew how things worked.
>>>
>>> Like the early days of the PC computer revolution....when you
>>> HAD to know how your new $8,000 8088 computer worked, because
>>> if you didn't build it yourself it would have cost $12,000, and
>>> the VERY immature hardware market where reliablity was iffy, so
>>> troubleshooting and repairing it yourself was a necessity.
>>
>> You mean an old Altair, Commodore Pet, or Sinclair? We even had
>> a PDP-11 that the engineers could mess with. There was also a
>> Seattle Computer Systems S-100 rack mount that adding memory to
>> meant adding a whole circuit board. Pretty much C/PM back then.
>
> MITS Altair 8800, IMSAI 8080, North Star Horizon Z80, Heathkit's ...
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Author: Tuukka MäkinenTuukka Mäkinen
Date: Jun 29, 2008 05:37
Kun heinäluoma otti 2008 vapun keskusteluaseekseen Suomen NATO-jäsenyyden ja
lupaili, ettei kansamme ole sinne pakko mennä, jossei sitä kaipaa, on
kyseessä tietysti demokratian peruselementti. Vaan miksei Heinäluoma
samantien vaatinut asiasta kansanäänestystä myös?
Olisi jäänyt sitten jatkon Häkämiehen panikoinnit ja vaatimukset koko
Pohjolan pakkonatoisuudesta omaan arvoonsa. Nykyinen kansantahtoa pilkkanaan
pitävä pakkoliittymisuhkailut alkaa syödä myös hallintomme kykyä tajuta
kansaansa laajemmin. Kaikkein keskeisintä demokratian mukaisen
kansalaisvastustuksen tallaamisen päälle on täysin keskustelemattomuuksiin
jäänyt fakta, miksi pitää mennä yhteisöön jonka liittymisen naapurusto
tulkitsee suorastaan sodanjulistukseksi heille. Lisäksi tarpeeton
liittyminen maksaa miljoonia, joita ei haluta kansalle laskea, miksei?
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Author:
Date: Jun 29, 2008 05:11
fearless freep wrote:
>
This idiot is becoming annoying. I detest people who do the
very things they condemn others for doing.
/BAH
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