Re: Getting Young People into IBM i

Hello Yvan,

Am 11.05.2023 um 18:36 schrieb Yvan Janssens <friedkiwi@xxxxxxxx>:

Apparently I’m still considered young, but the back pain is already there (although that might have something to do with carrying around CHONKY or CHUNGUS here).

You'd probably better describe Chonky being a 9406-S20 and Chungus a zSomething. ;-)

I got into i by adopting a Model 170 many years ago, posting to this mailing list asking what to do with it, and having some wonderful people respond off-list and I've built long-lasting friendships through the year like this.

Similarly here.

- software access is hard. In an ideal world, I would see SW releases for P6 or older be offered for non-commercial purposes free of charge (similar to the OpenVMS world). This would allow these older machines to be operated a lot easier.

Indeed!

For pre-PPC systems, a SYSTEM PASSWORD generator being published would mean a lot to being able to keep those machines running.

YES PLEASE!!

Re: CISC machines, those issues are becoming more and more pressing since troubleshooting current age-related failure modes often trips this. Providing a generator (or publishing the algorithm) wouldn't result in any lost business (operations that run this hardware aren't paying customers any more anyways), but would allow the preservation of these systems.

I fully agree!

Or, to put it short: Excellence comes from interest, not from "it's just a job". Interest needs to be nurtured and this equals most often to "do things in leisure time". Or, in one word: A hobby.

:wq! PoC