Re: Announcing: Fyleet, Crobe, Sangraal

[Graham Nelson <graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk>]

In article <slrn7s56dn.4ii.jcn-martin-keegan@cavan.jesus.cam.ac.uk>,
Matthew Garrett <URL:mailto:jcn-martin-keegan@jesus.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
> >Truly? I have seen some stupefyingly boring MPEGs, but one of an IBM
> >mainframe being shut down would vie for top of the list. Or is it more
> >exciting than I know? Do they shut them down with amatol or something?
> >Cool!
> 
> People get very sentimental about old mainframes around here. This
> probably goes to show something or other, but I'm sure I don't know what.

I was actually logged on during its last minute of public service,
as (I noticed) were quite a number of others, purely for auld
lang syne.  It was like the Saturday night backup shutdown to
end all Saturday night backup shutdowns... and the system logged
us off forcibly exactly as it always did.  By then, there were
relatively few services available anyway, and it all felt like
a great big mansion from which all the furniture had been cleared.

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Graham Nelson | graham@gnelson.demon.co.uk | Oxford, United Kingdom