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   John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:03:09 JST John Francis

   Shake, shake, shaking the corporate client tree for expertise.

   C'mon, you're spending 8 or 9 digits a year on cloudification, you must have someone good at taking disk images off ancient hardware....

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     Myke (mware@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:03:08 JST Myke

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     @johnefrancis Is this where I get to pull out my example of how, as a summer student, in 3 weeks I did the job of a dozen-person department, with perl? Taking a 250 hour ETL process down to like... 40-60? And I did this in my spare time. Pro-tip: don't do your EBCDIC->ASCII conversion on the legacy hardware, while the multicore DB server is waiting.

     Probably 60-80 lines of perl.

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     Myke (mware@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:03:09 JST Myke

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     @johnefrancis “nobody understands EBCDIC”

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:03:09 JST John Francis

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     • Myke

     @mWare not THAT old. I doubt a mainframe cloud migration through IBM can be done within 9 figures anyway.

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     John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:18:11 JST John Francis

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     • Myke

     @mWare seems like a very good outcome. I hope they gave you the mainframe after.

     Who wouldn't want to have a super-cool set of closet doors taken from an old mainframe cabinet?

     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Z#/media/File:System_z_Frames.JPG

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     Myke (mware@mstdn.ca)'s status on Friday, 03-Nov-2023 04:18:11 JST Myke

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     @johnefrancis y’Also know I have a Sun E450 for a nighttable? Still looking for another to make a matched set.

     GF is less on board with this plan.

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