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> Is anyone here using the Hercules mainframe emulator?

I ran it for a while.  The machine it was on got replaced and I have yet to
add it back.

> Sean has mentioned mainframes and software such as REXX so I was wondering
> ifthere are other mainframe enthusiasts also using Hercules. Or it's your day
> job!

It was my day job and may soon be again soon.  I spent ~27 years in the
land of COBOL and JCL.  I enjoyed most of it.

> Sadly not mine, but it's pretty amazing to run MVS, an O/S that used to
requir
> a room full of water-cooled hardware, on a small server box at home.

I thought it was neat to set it up, too but, as it was so much different
than what I used at work (OS-390, IIRC) I really never could get the hang
of what to do with it.  That is probably why I never reinstalled it.

> Brings me back to my days as a console operator/tape ape/printer jockey in
the
> 1980s.

I was never an operator on a mainframe, but I did a couple of years
performing operations on a Baby/36 and an AS/400.

Mike

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