The much underrated "advertisement-news" genre 😆 love it. The varied music is a great feature too 😆

@jfbeam

Жыл бұрын

"But first, this..." I feel like I'm watching the news on Futurama.

@orangejjay

Жыл бұрын

I have a client that's a law firm and their commercials are in this format in 2023. Local news people make themselves available for "endorsements, "documentaries," and "news stories" (quotes because the reality is that they're none of these ... they're all commercials masquerading as something unbiased and honest). Turns out local news people will do quite a bit for $$$ ... just any other "reviewer."

@StuffOffYouStuff

Жыл бұрын

@@orangejjay ha ha ha! Love the 2023 insights on this topic. Thank you 👍😆

This came out about 2 years before I started at IBM Canada in 1997. As I was an OS/2 product specialist, I didn't have direct involvement with the "big iron", but one thing I supported was a terminal emulator called "Personal Communications", which could provide 3270, 5250 and telnet terminals. Back then I had accounts on several systems. CANVM2 and TORVM3 come to mind, as well as some AS/400 systems. I also had 5 each IP and SNA addresses, 1 for my own computer and 4 for my testing. Of course, this was on token ring, not Ethernet.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

Жыл бұрын

Hi James, it sounds like you have quite a fascinating technical background, as an OS/2 product specialist and beyond! Thanks for sharing that. What did you think of Token Ring as an architecture? ~ Victor, CHAP

@James_Knott

Жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject My entire career has been in technology. I spent 23 years in the telecom industry industry before I started at IBM. I first started with OS/2 as a user on my home computer when OS/2 2.0 came out, in April 1992. At IBM, as an OS/2 product specialist, I did 3 rd level OS/2 support, as well as some apps on OS/2, Windows 95 and NT. Most of my work was on ThinkPads and I might have a half dozen various models at my desk. I was also on the team that built the standard desktop systems for IBM Canada employees. IBM also encouraged us to work with Linux on company time and I would periodically find a pack of a few Linux distro CDs in my mail slot. In that 23 years in telecom industry, about 12 years was spent as a computer technician, working on systems such as Data General Eclipse, DEC VAX 11/780 and more. The closest I got to IBM gear back then was the Air Canada reservation system, where they used Collins computers as the communications front end. The Collins computers were mil spec versions of the IBM 370 (IIRC). the heart of the system was UNIVAC, which I did not work on. Also, in the earlier years, the company I worked for was part of Canadian National Railway and, among other things, I spent a couple of years in the Toronto Stock Exchange. I also spent a couple of years in Northern Ontario, where I spent a lot of time riding on trains, including freights. The last 5 years in that company, I was in planning, where I planned the installation of telecom equipment in the main office in Toronto, Ont. and at customer sites in downtown Toronto. This work also included up on the CN Tower, which for may years was the tallest (1815 feet) free standing structure in the world. So, yeah, it was a bit interesting. Back in those days, token ring had some advantages over Ethernet, in that Ethernet was half duplex, which really killed performance. Allowance had to be made for the probability of collisions, when more than one device would try to transmit at the same time. Since token ring didn't have that issue, performance was much better. However, token ring was more complex and when Ethernet switches appeared, token ring lost it's advantages.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

Жыл бұрын

Hi James, you have an impressive history in the technical area! Quite a variety of systems you worked with. This is only the second time someone has mentioned "Collins" computers too. Some very interesting brands here. Thanks very much for sharing that info about your past tech work. I bet you have got some interesting "believe it or not" type tech stories(!). Thanks again. ~ Victor at CHAP

@James_Knott

Жыл бұрын

@@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject That Air Canada system was where I first worked with a LAN, in early 1978. However, it was a proprietary network that used time division multiplexing over a ring. It predated both Ethernet and IP. Another name is "Teleregister". I worked on one of their systems in the Toronto Stock Exchange. It was built with vacuum tubes and relays and had a drum for memory. It was installed a year before I was born. That system was used for transmitting stock prices to broker's offices. Apparently, they also had some systems for horse track betting, but I never saw any of those.

@TimothyMartin-er3pm

Жыл бұрын

I love it - I was on WAYVMIC5 when I started in 1987, back when Philly (WAY=Wayne, a Philly suburb) was still an independent area. I still have a couple of 8228 token ring MSAUs in my basement. Probably would struggle getting them up and running now, each port had a relay that you had to initialize with a little battery plug and I'm sure in the last 25 years the charge has bled away. Fun thinking about the old iron, for a time I managed my tiny branch's Customer Center and managed to snag a 3 refrigerator-sized rack 9375, which was supposed to be an office environment machine. Turns out that was optimistic, and the entire office got very grumpy when that thing was running and inside temps got up into the high 80s. 😊

Wow, it helps me recall AS/400 + OS400 + DB2 400. Tears of Era back to Host machine & Mainframe timer.

@fokthewef

3 ай бұрын

That was my first job back in 1996. Doing development work on the AS/400 architecture.. good old days

And thank you Liz...🤣

Well, I'm convinced. I'll order two!

I loved everything about this!

It's a bit schmaltzy, but I think the System/390 is cooler than zSeries; that sweet spot of cmos in the 90's :^) Though, the one thing about IBM marketing from the end of the 70's onward is less technical info, and more salesSpeak aimed at executives who know nothing about how mainframes actually work. Wow, up to 100 transactions a second, lol, that's fast ;^)

IBM had quality PC, hard drives, laptops, chip foundry. All gone because "commodity". The still got the very pricey Big Iron. Fallen very low.

Wow! Sales word salad. I LOVE IT

Such a system is working in the Antonov Design Bureau in Ukraine. There are running a terminal emutator - with an old software: - "the green snake")))

Grato!

I start with VS1 in 1978, after MVS in 3083 and so ........ more than 150 banking transaction for second, respond time about 1.5 seconds, real computers

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

Жыл бұрын

Hi Francisco, so... you got to play with the "big" toys! Very cool. Lots of power in MVS back in the day. Thanks for sharing! ~ Victor, at CHAP

I miss MVS in a lot of ways… it was so much simpler… also a lot more expensive. No virtualization… that came with AIX. Note that I’m not bashing virtualization, it was just easier to be an SME.

@James_Knott

Жыл бұрын

I also liked the "green screen" 3270 terminals. I used to support Personal Communications at IBM Canada, which could emulate 3270 and 5250 terminals. Remember PROFS?

@the_gammaman

Жыл бұрын

Big iron had virtualization with VM

100 transactions a second! 12:46

@user-tc2ky6fg2o

Жыл бұрын

Probably it was not a single-row update

Dear IBM, Is this OS/390 195 times better than OS/2?

The following program is a paid advertisement by IBM Corporation.

@ComputerHistoryArchivesProject

Жыл бұрын

Yes, it is!

So many meaningless diagrams and bar graphs 😂 I liked the quarterly updates every six months 🤔

Lots of animations and zero detail.

So much marketing speak and zero technical details…