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@sev.org   http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn   
      
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