Dan FitzGerald

@d_j_fitzgerald@bitbang.social
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IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer, Amateur Photographer, Polythiest, Druid, and Collector of Crap. Co-Founder, Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie. Views are my own and not my employer's.
PronounsThey/She
Websitehttps://www.vm.ibm.com/devpages/dfitzger/
Professional InterestsOperating Systems, Linux, IBMmer, Software Engineer, Mainframer
ComputersToo damned many
Dan FitzGeraldJun 14
Become ungovernable.
Dan FitzGeraldMay 18
Posted without context or comment. I'm not sure if I should drink less or more.
Dan FitzGeraldApr 30
This is why I'm on Nextdoor:
Show threadDan FitzGeraldApr 11
@frameworkcomputer Also: I am toying with the idea of creating stickers for the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie. There would be no business purpose and we are not a nonprofit (so its not a fundraiser), but I can see even (or especially) the oldest, most conservative of my mainframe coworkers losing it for repos of these:
Dan FitzGeraldApr 11

I have pre-ordered the new 12" laptop by @frameworkcomputer in trans pri... erm... "bubblegum". I am very excited.

I dont buy new hardware for myself. I use my IBM-issued Thinkpad P15 for almost everything, and a 12-year old Thinkpad X120e netbook for my retrocomputing work. I love that it fits inside my purse, but hate that it is painfully slow. Now that IBM will be switching me over to a Macbook Pro, it's important to me that I have a purse-sized Linux daily driver.

Dan FitzGeraldMar 30
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Show threadDan FitzGeraldMar 17
Anyway, this is why corned beef and cabbage is one of my favorite ethnic foods. It is _mine_ and tells the story of my Ancestors who left a dirt farm in Lismore to live in a tenement a block away from the docks on West Houston street in Manhattan. Specifically, these handsome lads, their sister, and their parents.
Dan FitzGeraldMar 16
Holy shit, Doonesbury is going _hard_ on their depiction of Musk and DOGE
Dan FitzGeraldMar 4
Yes, I just configured ImHex (hex editor) to use the IBM Bookmaster fixed-width font that IBM used to use in their DOS manuals. Why do you ask?
Dan FitzGeraldJan 27
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Show threadDan FitzGeraldApr 11
@frameworkcomputer Also: I am toying with the idea of creating stickers for the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie. There would be no business purpose and we are not a nonprofit (so its not a fundraiser), but I can see even (or especially) the oldest, most conservative of my mainframe coworkers losing it for repos of these:
Show threadjgeorgeApr 12

@d_j_fitzgerald @frameworkcomputer I have toyed with the idea of making replacement machine nameplates for fun and no-profit (trademark, shhh).

Also, you have any need or desire for a few thousand 3174 name badges? I have come into a ridiculous amount of them. I’m thinking about mosaic tiling my bathroom with them.

Show threadAmin Girasol1d ago
@d_j_fitzgerald I'm not finding anything about the Classical Computing Laboratory at IBM Poughkeepsie - it's all swamped by the quantum efforts at the location. Can you tell me more?
Show threadDan FitzGerald20h ago

@fluidlogic sure! It's not open to the public, which is probably why you couldnt find anything on it ;-)

Located across a glass breezeway from the new Quantum labs you were reading about, the Classical Computimg Laboratory is a small historical center installed in a room with a glass wall. Every Wednesday for two hours it is open to anybody on site: IBMers, contractors, site visitors. Special tours or lab hours are available by appointment and I want to have a special friends and family day

Show threadDan FitzGerald20h ago
@fluidlogic our biggest piece is currently our VM/ESA 2.4 system, running on a S/390 Intrgrated Server, an enterprise-grade mainframe emulator. A bank of five 3270 type terminals is connected to it through a coax hub. We also have a S/36 midrange system with terminal and printer, an RT/PC, a PCjr, a 5110 portable, a PC Portable, an RS/6000, some PS/2s, an original ThinkPad, and an assortment of typewriters that cycle in and out when they immediately break
Show threadDan FitzGerald20h ago
@fluidlogic we also have some cool projects in the works! We're hoping to get a repaired and restored Selectric, Connor K. is working on installing AIX on a PS/2 model 80, and we're hoping to get a printer hooked up to the VM system. And I am working on a project to simulate the heart of the 1980s IBM intranet -- the IBM internal TOOLS conference disk system! (TOOLS is available for anyone with VM to download today, but we have backups of real conference disks!)