[LUNI] I finally got mainframe linux up #$

[James Velguth]

Looks like somebody is as old as I am....

Carey Tyler Schug wrote:

> Actually, I do have a device that could be rewired to read one card at 
> a time, two passes per card.  It was a card programmer from a Wang 
> programmable calculator, it reads every other column of an 80 column 
> card, so flip the card over and read the other columns.  It had a big 
> fat cable which was cut off, so it would have to be wired up to a 
> matrix of parallel input ports.
>
> You had to have a bit of masochism to be a computer person in the 
> early days.....
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> Kenneth P. Stox wrote:
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>> On Wed, 2007-02-07 at 22:02 -0600, Carey Tyler Schug wrote:
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>>> I finally got the Hercules emulator working, and under it I have run 
>>> Mainframe 31 bit Linux, along with the old "free" versions of MVS 
>>> 3.8 and VM R6.
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>> Masochism at its best! Just add punch cards, and you're all set. ;->
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