Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

[Paul Scott <paslist@ultrasw.com>]

Raquel Rice wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700
> Marc Shapiro <mshapiro_42@yahoo.com> wrote:
>   
> > Carl Fink wrote:
> >     
> > > Quick poll:  how many people here are old enough to read that
> > > subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe?
> > >       
> > Count me in!  My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an
> > "Introduction  to Computing" class, back in 1976.  I was also
> > taking a 'Musical  Computer' class which ran FOCAL on a DEC PDP
> > 11/15.
> >
> > --
>
> 1966.  Just starting out in operations at a major (still) U.S. bank.
>   
I started the same year but all my programming was on CDC machines and 
mini-computers until the PC appeared.

Paul Scott