• redcalcium@lemmy.institute
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    1 year ago

    Anyone who want to taste IBM’s COBOL can register for an account on pub400.com and get a free access to AS/400 system. Now you can truly understand what manner of horrors faced by our predecessors.

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    1 year ago

    TL;DR?

    Approachable, detailed article touching on just about every major aspect of the mainframe; history, hardware, functions, relevance and resilience.

    Will be sharing with my more technically inclined friends.