On Wed, 26 Aug 2020, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
On 8/26/20 11:10 PM, Jeffrey Jonas via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
replying to Herb Johnson:
A major offshoot of user groups/clubs was shareware. SIG/M was a library of over 100: 8" floppies freely shared by the CP/M groups. There were IBM 1130 groups in the 70s that shared software and newsletters. SHARE was for IBM mainframe folks to share software, libraries, documentation, etc.
SHARE is still going strong; last year's was here in Pittsburgh. It was so huge that it snarled traffic in and around the city for the entire week.
-Dave
I attended a SHARE conference in San Francisco in 2002, mostly for the RS6000/AIX stuff. When they found out I was a programmer rather than a high-powered network administrator, I was treated like a 2nd-class citizen. Mike Loewen mloewen@cpumagic.scol.pa.us Old Technology http://q7.neurotica.com/Oldtech/