I think that it's really wild that Day 3 of VCF East 2024 could well be the 60th anniversary of the S/360Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S8 Active, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone -------- Original message --------From: David Riley <fraveydank@gmail.com> Date: 4/10/23 11:56 (GMT-05:00) To: vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> Cc: Dan FitzGerald <danjfitzgerald@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Throwing down the gauntlet: Idea for VCF East 2024 theme I like this idea and know a few folks I might be able to convince to come based on that!- Dave> On Apr 10, 2023, at 11:43 AM, Dan FitzGerald via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:> > I don't know if anybody has talked about themes for VCF East 2024, but> I realized that Sunday, April 7, 2024 will be the 60th anniversary of> the launch of the IBM System/360. That will also be the weekend> _after_ Easter, and thus be around the time when we would be holding> VCF East 2024. I think that this is a very good opportunity to take> advantage of these coincidences and do a System/360 or IBM mainframe> theme.> > Thoughts?> > Regards,> Dan FitzGerald> They/Them/Theirs> http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger