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Recently, I traded in my BMW R1200 GS for another bike, the K1600 GTL. See pictures below. It is a very, very comfortable motorcycle. It has a lot of power as well, since it has a six cylinder engine with 1650 cc, about 160 Horse Power and a max torque… Read the rest

It’s a special day today, 55 years ago IBM announced this model, along with other initial models of the System/360 family of computers, in April 1964. This particular model was first shipped to the Bank of America in August 1965. All photos in this post taken from this read worthy… Read the rest

A couple of fellow enthusiasts ported the BREXX language to MVS3.8j TK4- ! A Herculean task indeed… Here’s a quote from their announcement: After good progress in the last months, we are just about ready to ship the first MVS release of BREXX/370. Thanks to all who have helped in… Read the rest

IBM printers IBM 1403 in the “Haus zur Geschichte der IBM Datenverarbeitung” museum, Sindelfingen, Germany When a IBM/370 system like MVS or VM generates output, it is stored in what we call output queues. These queues are divided in classes. There’s a ‘Held output’ queue where output goes that we… Read the rest