If you're upset about ATM fees, there's a simple solution.
JOIN A CREDIT UNION. The restrictions that many had in the past are mostly long gone. If you look around there's probably one near you that will let you join because you live in the area it services. They're more customer oriented than most banks these days.
They have access to ATM machines. Not just the ones for the CU, but also on the CO-OP network.
And where do you find CO-OP network ATMs? Hard to find places like, 7-11 stores. Must be about a million billion of them. Yes, no fees for using your card there.
The SysReq key goes back to the IBM System/360 mainframe. It didn't have a CRT as the operator console, it had a modified IBM selectric typewriter-type (with the patented ball type element) as the operator console. It was a model 1052.
Because of the slow print speed (less than 15 characters per second), the mainframe OS could spew out a lot of messages (some cryptic in nature to someone not familiar with the system) on paper. In order to prevent confusion, the keyboard was locked by default and you had to press the SysReq key on the keyboard and wait for the system to unlock the keyboard (and that might take a bit) to allow the operator to enter commands.
I actually saw one in use at a PPOE, on an IBM System 360/50. You just had to live with it.
The next generation IBM System 370 systems initially came with the same type of console, but they later introduced the much faster 3215 console keyboard/printer, which I think used a dot-matrix type print element. Still had to use the SysReq key to be allowed to enter commands.
Besides, somebody has to be around to translate or fix old legacy code to these new-fangled languages (some of which will fall into disuse sooner than you might expect).
Corporations? Bah! It's the Christian Scientists who blocked the announcement! They didn't want the world to find out, we'd found their great planet Xenu!
Actually,it was a factor of 4. He said so in Star Trek III:The Search for Spock when he was estimating the refit after the activities with Khan in the prior pic.
Dialog went as follows (Best guess, sorry if I don't get all the words exactly right)...
Kirk: How much time for the refit, Scotty? Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But we don't have eight weeks, so I'll have it done in two. Kirk: Mr. Scott, have you always multipled your repair estimates by a factor of four? Scotty: Of course, sir. How else am I going to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?
Sleep well, Jimmy. Give our regards to DeForest when you seem him.
Int'l Channel moved Dragonball Z (the unedited and un-subbed Japanese language feed) to 10:30 Eastern on Sundays (happened on August 5). What this did was to give a solid 90 minute block of Japanese anime every Sunday night.
The lineup is 10:30 PM Dragonball Z, 11:00 Armored Troopers VOTOM (subbed), 11:30 The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (subbed).
There's only one feed, so it shows at 7:30 PM on the west coast.
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If you're upset about ATM fees, there's a simple solution.
JOIN A CREDIT UNION. The restrictions that many had in the past are mostly long gone. If you look around there's probably one near you that will let you join because you live in the area it services. They're more customer oriented than most banks these days.
They have access to ATM machines. Not just the ones for the CU, but also on the CO-OP network.
And where do you find CO-OP network ATMs? Hard to find places like, 7-11 stores. Must be about a million billion of them. Yes, no fees for using your card there.
Because we're Americans, you insensitive clod!
And you'll still need to know or learn the important stuff, you know...
MVS/zOS, JCL, COBOL, CICS, IMS...
Just because the colleges are, more or less, up to date, doesn't mean your future employer is.
Not bad for a NCAA Division II Sports school. Go Tritons.
Dell: Dude, you're getting a Dell!
Customer: Shit!
It's back to COBOL for you wankers.
Listen to the background music. It's a Mission:Impossible riff from the original TV series. How appropriate.
More likely, his machine's so old, he has to use floppies to backup his pr0n collection!
with all the deliterious effects left in, has finally arrived.
"You vill go our schools. Ve haf vays of making you go to our schools!"
The SysReq key goes back to the IBM System/360 mainframe. It didn't have a CRT as the operator console, it had a modified IBM selectric typewriter-type (with the patented ball type element) as the operator console. It was a model 1052.
Because of the slow print speed (less than 15 characters per second), the mainframe OS could spew out a lot of messages (some cryptic in nature to someone not familiar with the system) on paper. In order to prevent confusion, the keyboard was locked by default and you had to press the SysReq key on the keyboard and wait for the system to unlock the keyboard (and that might take a bit) to allow the operator to enter commands.
I actually saw one in use at a PPOE, on an IBM System 360/50. You just had to live with it.
The next generation IBM System 370 systems initially came with the same type of console, but they later introduced the much faster 3215 console keyboard/printer, which I think used a dot-matrix type print element. Still had to use the SysReq key to be allowed to enter commands.
Two words....
Diplomatic Immunity...
You forgot one...
4. Profit!!!
Learn. COBOL. Now...
IBM mainframes aren't going away.
You'll never be unemployed.
Besides, somebody has to be around to translate or fix old legacy code to these new-fangled languages (some of which will fall into disuse sooner than you might expect).
Corporations? Bah! It's the Christian Scientists who blocked the announcement! They didn't want the world to find out, we'd found their great planet Xenu!
Actually,it was a factor of 4. He said so in Star Trek III:The Search for Spock when he was estimating the refit after the activities with Khan in the prior pic.
Dialog went as follows (Best guess, sorry if I don't get all the words exactly right)...
Kirk: How much time for the refit, Scotty?
Scotty: Eight weeks, sir. But we don't have eight weeks, so I'll have it done in two.
Kirk: Mr. Scott, have you always multipled your repair estimates by a factor of four?
Scotty: Of course, sir. How else am I going to maintain my reputation as a miracle worker?
Sleep well, Jimmy. Give our regards to DeForest when you seem him.
Int'l Channel moved Dragonball Z (the unedited and un-subbed Japanese language feed) to 10:30 Eastern on Sundays (happened on August 5). What this did was to give a solid 90 minute block of Japanese anime every Sunday night.
The lineup is 10:30 PM Dragonball Z, 11:00 Armored Troopers VOTOM (subbed), 11:30 The Irresponsible Captain Tylor (subbed).
There's only one feed, so it shows at 7:30 PM on the west coast.