For my new project I am having to learn all about Mainframe Computers, the level of knowledge that has seen me through a lifetimes career in IT; "they are big blue things" is now way out of date, not least because as I found out the other day they are now painted black.
So I found these interesting articles on Mainframe Computers 'The Gen Xer's Guide to Mainframes.
Part 1 - http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/enewsletterexclusive/20410p1.aspx
Part 2 - http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/enewsletterexclusive/20679p1.aspx
Part 3 - http://www.ibmsystemsmag.com/mainframe/enewsletterexclusive/20924p1.aspx
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Alan Beddow is an IT Project Manager, amateur sound engineer, former Parliamentary Candidate, Warwick Resident and general good egg.
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Cut IT teeth on a couple of ICL/English Electric System 4 mainframes. The bigger one had 256 K (yes that's K) of RAM and the smaller had 192K.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Electric_System_4
They had a 'high-level' programming language called Cleo - developed for the Leo (Jo Lyons) machines
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LEO_(computer)
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