RE: https://oldbytes.space/@amoroso/117586505022552494
This feels funny to boost, because I've done very few IBM mainframe projects, so it doesn't have that nostalgia factor for me that things like DEC PDP systems do for me -- but that's of course just the (semi-) accident of personal history.
But it *always* feels weird to post about things that are nostalgic to others but not me. Has anyone studied the psychology? Or is this just a trivial question of when and where you were young?
P.S. BASIC on a mainframe also seems weird, but that's just me. Or is that one objective?
Fun projects and ideas if you've got a spare IBM VM/370 mainframe, emulated or otherwise: coding in BASIC and Fortran, playing games, transferring files, running a text editor, accessing the file system, and more.
https://rbanffy.github.io/fun-with-big-computers/fun-with-vm370
@dougmerritt BASIC was born on a mainframe, a GE-225, so it's not too suprising for it to have been implemented on IBM machines.