Hello, members

misha56 · Post by **misha56** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:34 pm

Hi - my name is Mike. I found this site by accident while on Google and was quite impressed with the concept. A community that isn't all about match-making and romance - finally!

My interests are music, computers, gadgets, books and movies and other countries and their peoples (UK, especially). Anyone who wants to be an e-pal is welcome to write me.

Sheryl · Post by **Sheryl** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:42 pm

Hello and welcome Mike.

This is the nuttiest garden around. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. We are a friendly bunch.

kayleneaussie · Post by **kayleneaussie** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:53 pm

Welcome to forum garden Mike:D

dubs · Post by **dubs** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:58 pm

Hello Mike, you'll find all that stuff and more here. And there's quite a few of us here from the UK..

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:59 pm

Hiya Mike...

Nice to meet you and glad you found this fun place!

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 6:59 pm

Hiya Mike and welcome.;)Most are complete nutters on here but its your lucky day as Im not:rolleyes:butttt be very careful of some of the other girls cause..........na better not say anymore as they may be listening

anyway as long as you make me a cup of tea when I come and visit you we will get on just great;):)

chonsigirl · Post by **chonsigirl** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:03 pm

Tombstone · Post by **Tombstone** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:14 pm

misha56;771829 wrote: Hi - my name is Mike. I found this site by accident while on Google and was quite impressed with the concept. A community that isn't all about match-making and romance - finally!

My interests are music, computers, gadgets, books and movies and other countries and their peoples (UK, especially). Anyone who wants to be an e-pal is welcome to write me.

Hi Mike!

Don't be fooled - there must be romance around here somewhere! :p

AussiePam · Post by **AussiePam** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:20 pm

Bonjour, ChÃ©ri !

:-4

:sneaky:

Carolly · Post by **Carolly** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:26 pm

AussiePam;771850 wrote: Bonjour, ChÃ©ri !

:-4

:sneaky:Watch that one Mike:rolleyes:;)

Mystery · Post by **Mystery** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:30 pm

Hi! So what kind of books do you like?

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 7:34 pm

ha, I was gonna wait to promise not to bite .....too hard!!:D:-4

but I won't say it yet....I'll let him get comfy!!:)

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 1:55 am

Bloody hell, it's a mainframe programmer. I didn't know any still existed above ground.

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:10 am

Welcome to FG Mike. :-6

Pheasy · Post by **Pheasy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:22 am

spot;771954 wrote: Bloody hell, it's a mainframe programmer. I didn't know any still existed above ground.

Oiy!! I used to be one of those :wah:

Hello and Welcome to FG :-6

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 5:41 am

ThePheasant;772010 wrote: Oiy!! I used to be one of those :wah:Garn! You never! Go on, use some words.

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:35 am

hi mike...

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:44 am

Hello and welcome, the only nice person from the UK here is me

bring me chocolate and I'll look after you!!:sneaky:

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:48 am

Imladris;772022 wrote: Hello and welcome, the only nice person from the UK here is me

bring me chocolate and I'll look after you!!:sneaky:

Asif

:driving:

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 6:50 am

SlipStream;772024 wrote: Asif

:driving:

What are you implying? :sneaky::sneaky:

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:32 am

Imladris;772026 wrote: What are you implying? :sneaky::sneaky:

nowt.. part from the flat pack fact that slippy's Mr nice here in this weedy garden

Imladris · Post by **Imladris** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:49 am

SlipStream;772034 wrote: nowt.. part from the flat pack fact that slippy's Mr nice here in this weedy garden

Not Mr Tickle then?

SlipStream · Post by **SlipStream** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 7:53 am

Imladris;772044 wrote: Not Mr Tickle then?

:wah:

kazalala · Post by **kazalala** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:02 am

Hello:D

Pheasy · Post by **Pheasy** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 8:52 am

spot;772011 wrote: Garn! You never! Go on, use some words.

So you want me to talk dirty to you :sneaky:

I'll see what I can come up with

Post by **spot** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:00 am

What are we hinting at here? MVS? JCL3? MCP1? RSTS? JES?

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:12 am

Hiya Mike and welcome to the garden

Have fun.........(from the UK and im normal :-4)

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:25 am

Chezzie;772102 wrote: Hiya Mike and welcome to the garden

Have fun.........(from the UK and im normal :-4)

:eek::yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl:yh_rotfl

Normal is just a setting on the dryer ya know!:wah:

Chezzie · Post by **Chezzie** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:27 am

WonderWendy3;772114 wrote:

:yh_rotfl:yh

Normal is just a setting on the dryer ya know!:wah:

so is delicate babey:D:D

WonderWendy3 · Post by **WonderWendy3** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 9:28 am

Chezzie;772117 wrote: so is delicate babey:D:D

what about HOTTTTTT??????

Nomad · Post by **Nomad** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:31 pm

misha56;771829 wrote: Hi - my name is Mike. I found this site by accident while on Google and was quite impressed with the concept. A community that isn't all about match-making and romance - finally!

My interests are music, computers, gadgets, books and movies and other countries and their peoples (UK, especially). Anyone who wants to be an e-pal is welcome to write me.

Its really amazing the way your mind can wander off and depart reality when you have been in solitary confinement for 6 months.

You pickin up what Im layin down ?

misha56 · Post by **misha56** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:39 pm

Thanks to all of you for your great hellos!

I'm sorry I haven't posted a reply here earlier - been down with a cold for a few weeks and I'm also frantically trying to jump on to any new IT contract in the DC area.

AussiePam, you resemble my girlfriend who I live with!

To all the UK'ers, great to hear from you, the closest I've got to anything UK is the Irish bar in Old Towne, Alexandria VA (where I'm based) called O'Connells. Great Irish staff and Irish-owned, too. My gal pal and I love to go down there once a week and yak with the lads (and a nice Aussie girl named Merrin) who tend the bar.

To the computer geeks - yeah I've done mainframe, life was SO simple in the 80's! COBOL rocks.So again, sorry I've been neglectful - will try to be more active here.

Cheers, slainte, umm...what's Welsh for cheers? Anybody help me?

Mike

abbey · Post by **abbey** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:53 pm

misha56;809416 wrote:

Cheers, slainte, umm...what's Welsh for cheers? Anybody help me?

Mikelloniannau (cheers)

Post by **spot** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 5:56 pm

abbey;809425 wrote: lloniannau (cheers)

Are you sure he's not the current President of Romania?

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:03 pm

Oh stop it Spot your making me cry.. :wah::wah: I use to work magic with JCL.

[QUOTE]What are we hinting at here? MVS? JCL3? MCP1? RSTS? JES?[/QUOTE]

misha56 · Post by **misha56** » Wed Mar 19, 2008 6:52 pm

Hmmm...I'd break my tongue trying to pronounce THAT! How about "nanoo, nanoo" instead? You remember Mork's universal sign-off?

JCL? Nahhh..I used DEC VAX Digital Command Language.

Today, it's Microsoft-sprechen - VBA, that sort of thing.

Mike

Post by **spot** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:34 pm

CARLA;809431 wrote: Oh stop it Spot your making me cry.. :wah::wah: I use to work magic with JCL

Did you get near the IBM/360's DOS? I was horrified the first time I worked on one of those. What's amazing is that I was still using exactly the same syntax when I went back to an IBM environment twenty years after.

Here, I even found an example://IS198CPY JOB (IS198T30500),'COPY JOB',CLASS=L,MSGCLASS=X

//COPY01 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

//SYSUT1 DD DSN=OLDFILE,DISP=SHR

//SYSUT2 DD DSN=NEWFILE,

// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),

// SPACE=(CYL,(40,5),RLSE),

// DCB=(LRECL=115,BLKSIZE=1150)

//SYSIN DD DUMMY

CARLA · Post by **CARLA** » Thu Mar 20, 2008 5:42 pm

Spot your blast from the past are to much. I remember it well it is something you don't easily forget. :wah::wah:

Quote:

[QUOTE]Originally Posted by CARLA

Oh stop it Spot your making me cry.. I use to work magic with JCL

Did you get near the IBM/360's DOS? I was horrified the first time I worked on one of those. What's amazing is that I was still using exactly the same syntax when I went back to an IBM environment twenty years after.

Here, I even found an example:

Code:

//IS198CPY JOB (IS198T30500),'COPY JOB',CLASS=L,MSGCLASS=X

//COPY01 EXEC PGM=IEBGENER

//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*

//SYSUT1 DD DSN=OLDFILE,DISP=SHR

//SYSUT2 DD DSN=NEWFILE,

// DISP=(NEW,CATLG,DELETE),

// SPACE=(CYL,(40,5),RLSE),

// DCB=(LRECL=115,BLKSIZE=1150)

//SYSIN DD DUMMY[/QUOTE]