Friday October 1, 2021

I led a lunch-n-learn session detailing mainframe emulation on a Raspberry Pi Zero. Topics covered:

• What is a mainframe?
• History of the mainframe
• Mainframes today
• Misconceptions
• Requirements
• Host Setup and Installation
• Host Startup
• Client Setup
• Operations:
  • Logon
  • JCL and Programming; COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/1, and C
  • Logoff and Shutdown

Big thanks to Smart Data for hosting this!