Obtaining Mainframe Experience w/o a Mainframe?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday August 5, 2003 @12:10PM from the chickens-and-eggs dept.

Nice2Cats asks: "So I'm reading all over about how companies are desperate for people who know how to work mainframes, especially now that IBM is shipping them with Linux. But how -- short of a course with Big Blue or some other exercise in expensive formal education -- can I acquire even the most basic information or experience with big iron? There doesn't seem to be many tutorials or introductions online; what would be nice, but I can't seem to find either, would be a simulator that would run on a PC. All I want to know is if I like enough to be seriously interested."

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Re:The Hercules System/370, ESA/390, and z/ Emulat by Ratbert42 · 2003-08-05 13:51 · Score: 4, Funny

A number of our developers hypothetically could possibly be running Hercules and some of the latest and most sophisticated IBM software and it (hypothetically again) kicks ass.
Disclaimer: I in no way know anything about any copyright or license violations and hardly speak for myself, much less my tiny tiny offshore company with absolutely no attachable assets.