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walshemj
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IBM will offer free COBOL training
I doubt that mainframes where turned on and off every day even later with super mini's we left them powered up
nosborn
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Every mainframe I worked on until the mid-80s was turned on by the first person to arrive in the morning and turned off by the last to leave in the evening.
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Many sites had operations plan that involved weekly or biweekly "IPLs" done on weekends.
walshemj
on April 14, 2020
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Doesn't mean the power was off
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