Wow, celebrities in our midst! REXX is fantastic, you did amazing work on that. Your book occupies a prominent spot on my shelves, and we've a copy of it at LSSM as well for use by guests. Speaking of which, you should come out to visit LSSM at some point. We have running S/390 and ES/9000 machines, and some S/370 projects in the works. (not to mention all the DEC machines you've ever heard of, iron from HP, Varian, Cray, Modcomp, Sun, SGI, you name it. Complete, real, non-emulated machines with real peripherals, making the power company happy every day. A visit from your redoubtable self would be a great honor to our group. -Dave On 7/8/24 11:54, Mike Cowlishaw wrote:

:-) 'twasn't a port .. I wrote it from scratch, I believe. Still have INV.PLI :-)

Mike

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-----Original Message----- From: Dan FitzGerald [mailto:danjfitzgerald@comcast.net] Sent: 08 July 2024 16:08 To: vcf-midatlantic Cc: Dave McGuire Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Launch of the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie

Most of the equipment in the lab belongs to Connor Krukosky; the PC Portable, PCjr, and the dot matrix printers are mine. I also did the VM/ESA configuration (I run the IBM CIO's z/VM sysprog team) while Connor did the P390 and terminal hardware configuration. He also restored the IBM Memory Typewriter and repaired the (previously professionally-restored) IBM Correcting Selectric II.

Connor most definitely lifted the F50 up onto that table, but we also have furniture dollies and a nice collapsing cart.

Fun fact: the VM/CMS port of Space Invaders was done by a young Mike Cowlishaw, who developed the Rexx language.

Regards, Dan FitzGerald They/Them or She/Her Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie http://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger

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