Welcome to my Blog
"Brian's View of the Shore" is my first website. Built using Word Press. A fellow student (Thanks, Kaushal!) in my "Technical Communications" class (Fall/2012) at Saint Thomas did a presentation on "Blogging with Tumblr", stirring my creative juices. I decided to teach myself WordPress and started development of this website in mid-Nov, 2012. The intent is for it to be more of a complete personal website and not just a blog. If you want to see a list of the various topics and pages, click on "Site Map" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar. If you just want to read my Blog, click on "The Blog" on the Upper Menu Nav Bar, or any of the following Links, otherwise, … [Otherwise]
Summary of Recent Posts:
- The question was “what exactly was/is a mainframe?” April 3, 2024
- Modrl Railroading – structure building summary for 2023 January 31, 2024
- Programming in Assembler and/or using JCL October 27, 2023
- Model Railroading – kit building – LaserKutModels June 7, 2023
- Model Railroading – recent thoughts – motivation March 29, 2023
- Being down – and how I (temporarily) fixed it. March 13, 2022
- Model Railroading – FSM – Swakhammer’s Welding Co. December 10, 2020
- Hertz bankruptcy May 24, 2020
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Recent Post Excerpts:
The question was “what exactly was/is a mainframe?”
So - in my opinion, “back in the day” - BEFORE windows/Linux/unix/intel/dell (from 1950s thru, let’s say: 1985-1990 - before Unix/windows NT servers came into existence), and take this (at first) with a grain of salt: A mainframe was not ‘commodity’ hardware; each computer manufacturer (before AND during the advent of the seven dwarfs / BUNCH), had their own proprietary hardware AND OS software. Once you bought IBM, or … [More...]
Modrl Railroading – structure building summary for 2023
Since late last summer I’ve been beating myself up with regard to my model railroading ‘structure building’ hobby. It all had to do with me finally getting motivated last yr around this time (Feb/2023), getting back to my hobby table building my “kits” (I hadn’t done anything project-wise during all of 2021 nor 2022). So, it was a big deal to getting back and start making things again. Then, something (I believe) … [More...]
Programming in Assembler and/or using JCL
So I’ve joined a few Mainframe computer FB groups “recently” (last few weeks), and since the market was 80-90% IBM, most of the posters to the group are former “users/programmers” of the IBM System 360/370, etc. platform. They are dozens of gobble-gook acronyms which seem to be some sort of commands, and they then talk about programming in Assembler Language and they “seemed” to love it, etc. Somehow, my programming … [More...]
Model Railroading – kit building – LaserKutModels
It’s pretty tough starting a mom & pop business out of your garage these days. Decades ago, you could put an ad into the various hobby related mags, announcing your new model railroad kit manufacturing company, and hopefully, via these magazine ads, as well as by word of mouth, your mom & pop business just might get enough customers to make your start-up a successful one, like Art’s Bar Mills Scale Model Works, … [More...]
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