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echo: classic_computer
to: SEAN DENNIS
from: BOB KLAHN
date: 2014-10-27 12:41:00
subject: CLASSIC_COMPUTER Echo Rul

Main Frames gone? What do you think Cloud Computing is?

 SD> Monday September 01 2014 at 17:29, you wrote to MODERATOR:

 JG>> it...  Then things changed... Now, what I had wanted to do with the
 JG>> mainframe can be done with my Raspberry Pi and wifi or wireless access
 JG>> points connected to the wifi! Gone are the days of the old
 JG>> mainframes...  True, there are still places that use AS/400's, but not
 JG>> the same thing... Few companies refusing to modernize.... A lot of
 JG>> companies are also using "Thin Clients", which have potential.

 I have a couple old Thin Clients, neoware and HP. Not sure what
 I'm going to do with them.

 SD> Yep, it's amazing how much technology has changed, but
 SD> there's always people like us who try to keep the old
 SD> technology alive.  I have a friend who has a HP
 SD> minicomputer in his basement and has a terminal in his
 SD> living room and one in his office.  The mini runs HP-UX and
 SD> he's very fluent in it.

 SD> He's 16 years old. :)

 I gotta pull out my TRS-80 Mod I. No, I really don't gotta.

 Maybe my CoCo or TS-1000. That I might do.


BOB KLAHN bob.klahn{at}sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn

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