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enthusiast since 1967. I am an evangelist for the language, and also work to retrieve old PL/I software and documentation to make it accessible on the web. I manage
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historical sites, some of which I uploaded to Knowledge. If anyone wants to take a better photo, you won't hurt my feelings if you replace mine.
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I have been active in the computer field since 1967. I am fortunate to have worked with a variety of systems from various vendors:
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2.0 at introduction. I have been an OS/2 supporter and member of Team-OS/2. I moved to eCS and then to ArcaOS.
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Since retirement in 2010 I have written a PL/I compiler, and founded and run
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various others, including DEC PDP-8, PDP-11, 1401, Univac 1108, IBM System/7.
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Previously, I enjoyed taking (not-very-good) photos of local
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Book of Knowledge with Coffee Cup Stain and Cigarette Burn
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IBM System/z, VM/XA and /ESA, z/VM, MVS/XA and /ESA, z/OS.
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PL/I
"The PL/I Language"
Multics
TSS
XDS
CP-V
OS/2
Iron Spring Software
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