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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.

Hello and welcome Mike.

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

Welcome to forum garden Mike:D

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

Hiya Mike...

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

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

Hi.

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

Bonjour, Chéri !

:-4

:sneaky:

AussiePam;771850 wrote: Bonjour, Chéri !

:-4

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

Hi! So what kind of books do you like?

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!!:)

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

Welcome to FG Mike. :-6

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

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

hi mike...

Hello and welcome, the only nice person from the UK here is me bring me chocolate and I'll look after you!!:sneaky:

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:

SlipStream;772024 wrote: Asif :driving:


What are you implying? :sneaky::sneaky:

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

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




Not Mr Tickle then?

Imladris;772044 wrote: Not Mr Tickle then?


:wah:

Hello:D

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

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

Hiya Mike and welcome to the garden

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

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:

WonderWendy3;772114 wrote: :yh_rotfl:yh

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


so is delicate babey:D:D

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


what about HOTTTTTT??????

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 ?

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

misha56;809416 wrote:



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



Mikelloniannau (cheers)

abbey;809425 wrote: lloniannau (cheers)


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

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]

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

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

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]