#Mainframes

[oldguydoesstuff]

Man seated at the console of a Univac 1108 mainframe computer, circa 1965.

[stone-cold-groove]

Image detail from the IBM System/360 sales brochure - 1964.

[deepdreamnights]

Every Single Panel Does Something

That's how you know it's science fiction.

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[smbhax]

IBM System/360 & System/370 mainframes

[codeandcanvas]

For those of you who are about to delete your account(s)

I know and understand you. There are reasons, hell, you have reasons to delete whatever account it is you want deleted.

But download your own data first. Archive it. Zip that archive and push it into some automatically syncing folder between local and cloud, so that you can work around data degradation for a longer period of time.

Because you put whatever it is, whatever it was, you put it together and you had reasons for that.

Besides, the companies which used to host your account and your content are not ever deleting whatever it is you made and uploaded, shared and wrote: that is how valuable it is. That is the value of data.

Because neither do these companies know what all this data might be useful for, but they suspect that it will have a purpose in the future.

That purpose is being an archive.

Now, I would normally type something like “welcome to..” and then call it whatever weird stylistic anachronism I could come up with, but I won’t. I don’t trust people who name things. I am moving away from giving things names.

You are using a computer. Parts of what you do with your computer live on someone else’s storage drives. You should learn how to make copies of your own data, and store it well.

Companies like Twitter or Facebook will not be around forever. The next fire sale is always around the corner.

Save your data. Then delete your accounts/make your data unavailable for people outside the company.

[dinosaurspen]

Eternally upset I missed the public access Multics installation that apparently existed a few years ago before blipping off the face of the internet... who wants to start a new one with me?

[ladyargento]

COBOL

I need to have a look at COBOL for work reasons... I am so exhausted....

[theeleventhsignofthezodiac]

IBM z/OS operating system logo

[simonh]

EAI 640 Digital Computing System, 1966 by Colorcubic™ Via Flickr: via colorcubic.com/2010/10/27/eai-640-digital-computing-system/

[dailymothanon]

@chaetocercus has been enlightened me about marsupials and Soundwave w/ his little family and I can’t help but love it a lot 🦘 it’s very cute but also very cool considering how funky marsupials are! Also consider exhibit A: red kangaroo does (females) are also called blue-flyers because of their coloring! Blue mamas that are very jacked 😌 it’s only the best for them (also, apparently drawing kangaroos is fun, they have a fun shape to them)

[mentally321]

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[oldguydoesstuff]

Enormous IBM 7650 "Harvest" supercomputer built in 1962 for the NSA and Atomic Energy Commission.

[stone-cold-groove]

Hold on to your butts.

[crazygamecommunity]

Il platform a scorrimento orizzontale MainFrames verrà lanciato su Switch e PC (Steam) il 6 Marzo 2025, hanno annunciato The Arcade Crew e lo sviluppatore Assoupi.

[g4zdtechtv]

Cinematech's Trailer Park - MainFrames (Switch/PC)

How very Hypnospace Outlaw of you.