Yea same here in the early 90s it was almost impossible to make bad music everyone made good stuff or at least tried to. i love the hardware too its nostalgic all the light and switches and strange displays its what i miss about the 90s. i never saw a computer this big and it was recorded a little bit before my time but i got obsessed with smaller computers and things like old hifi equipment. modern tech tries to be very minimalist its just a grey block you can do anything in a menu.
Being born in 83 I never got to work on any of this stuff but always loved this era of computing. I saw my first big mainframe visiting the inside of a telco some time in the early 90s. The server room and equipment rooms were some of the coolest things I'd ever seen as a young nerd.
84 here, but same deal. my pops wrote i think either cobol or rpg on AS400s and possibly mainframes back at the Lykes Bros computing center in Zephyrhills FL back in the early 90s. He took me by the office once on a weekend and let me see everything and it only fueled the fires of my geekdom - first time I can recall being in a computer room with a raised floor
one thing that makes it obvious this is a real working server room rather than a showpiece is how the equipment is a mix of brands and shoved in where there's space with cables going all over the place. Typically when server rooms are shown in presentations and even movies they're always clinically clean and perfectly orderly, which I've never seen in any server room and even modern server farms are never that tidy
I went to work for Smith Barney in 1989. They had IBM equipment; tape drives, reel to reel drives. And a library that held about 100,000 cartridge tapes and magnetic reels. I worked 4 to 12. We also ran the VM machine. Hectic but overall fun and a good job with good benefits. That's all gone now. Everything is automated, at least from the tape.
Token ring, 37xx communication controllers, 33xx controllers and 33xx disk drives. Over priced but could survive an atomic bomb. Very reliable electronics, built like an old Cadillac. Fun to work on when people didn’t take technology for granted as they do today.
The disk drives shown here were actually plug-compatibles made in Germany by Comparex- with HDAs made in Japan by Hitachi. Comparex is still around; nowadays they're a software company.
@@douro20 Hitachi built drives and entire machines on license from IBM because no one in Japan would buy IBM, so it typically made little difference whether it said Hitachi or IBM on the devices. This is also why IBM sold their storage division to Hitachi in 2003 without considering any other offers
That show was very nice and the music complemented it very well. I cannot believe that the System 390 replaced the System 370. Behold, it is not a System 390. I will admit that the computer is ES/9000. These are the old computers I really missed.
Brought back memories for me - I started work in 86 and worked in a computer room exactly like this working on this exact equipment - Working for Gateway Foodmarkets Ltd (remember them? which then became Somerfield Stores) Happy days!!! On our next night shift, anyone wanna play the 'cage of death' or 'chair of challenge' Whilst Taz gets the coffees in? (private joke!! :-) )
@amaranthflavius MS? Windows? I was talking about System/3xx! Open source? IBM was giving loyal customers the source code on microfilm when "open source" wasn't even a "word" yet.
I really like the machines and the music as well. In fact, would you be willing to let me use a short segment of the music for my own channel (which I am trying to start)
+Noah Covert Unfortunately it seems that the music was done specifically for this video on the creator's Roland E5 keyboard. Just look in the comments. (i really want it too)
I doubt it was a module to begin with. Sounds more like something that came out of a drum machine than an actual computer. I ended up just downloading the video so I'm set!
Console operators are to run Computer-associates taiwan security of canadian blackberry then IML (initial microcode load) sony ps5 MIPS microcode into apple motorola g4/g5 IBM mainframe processor before IPL (initial program load). If s390 failed, try next generation to s390 which is Z with Z-OS... Virtual partitioning of processor... LPAR....
I think a lot of people don't realise what you can do with that much storage right now i have an 85 gb ssd and its giving me issues because windows uses too much strage filling it up with junk that seems to do nothing but i can't delete .but i used to have a phone with 16mb of storage and i had over 1000 pics and some mp3 and videos (the videos were very low quality and short not recommanded) in there. then i upgraded to 1 gb and it was like i had infinite storage i had a lot of clips in 240p and music on there not very impressive today but on the small screen it looked fine. or when i had a pc with a cd drive it seemed like it had so much on it games music video clips a lot of graphics all in 600mb . with 22gb in the late 90s you could have enough content to keep you happy until modern times (if you could download or obtain all of that lol) .but i guess when this was recorded in 1990 you didn't have any multimedia and it was just used for corporate data .if you wanted to you could store games on it but all the games were less than 1mb in size back then. and these mainstreams ran a weird os and hardware architecture so nobody ported games on it. and the graphics were often even worse than desktops from the time because that was not their main focus .so i don't think you could even play videos or digitised audio on there mostly because it wasn't even a thing yet .but i think it literally just has a bunch of text only terminals for graphics so even for the time its not that great .
I Love it , but even with the new place there is just not enough storage space , couldn't put it in a whole modern one bedroom , how could one even start to collect this system ? , such a shame it takes up soo much space , I do have the keyboards , a few terminals , the cords for connecting it - I hope someone has a few of these :) QC
Looks like a lot of fun, but I heard someone comment recently that it's not as efficient as a modern furnace. Hate to run one in the summertime, especially with the climate shi[f]t. A buddy of mine once had a large system in his basement, and I think he tried to heat the house with it.
Don Ellis Time goes by for all us... A current z/OS Enterprise class can run hundreds of win/linux servers on the footprint of one x86 server rack. You will spare space, energy on servers and cooling, people to aassist.
@amaranthflavius oh, yes this kernel panicking unix wannabe is popular, I'll give you that. Popular with the likes people who dared to call MySQL a database at time when it didn't even support transactions. It WILL get you alot from your PC based server, but I can't see why anyone would want to waste a high-end mainframe on it (and don't confuse them with super computers; lin is nice for that too). I'm sad that IBM was in a place where it had to give in and help people port it there.
I have been coming back to this video for ten friggin' years just because of the music and aesthetic of it. It's truly magical.
Yea same here in the early 90s it was almost impossible to make bad music everyone made good stuff or at least tried to. i love the hardware too its nostalgic all the light and switches and strange displays its what i miss about the 90s. i never saw a computer this big and it was recorded a little bit before my time but i got obsessed with smaller computers and things like old hifi equipment. modern tech tries to be very minimalist its just a grey block you can do anything in a menu.
This is my all time favorite computer related video aside from Connection Machine ones. I LOVE THE MUSIC, editing, aesthetic, etc!
Being born in 83 I never got to work on any of this stuff but always loved this era of computing. I saw my first big mainframe visiting the inside of a telco some time in the early 90s. The server room and equipment rooms were some of the coolest things I'd ever seen as a young nerd.
84 here, but same deal. my pops wrote i think either cobol or rpg on AS400s and possibly mainframes back at the Lykes Bros computing center in Zephyrhills FL back in the early 90s. He took me by the office once on a weekend and let me see everything and it only fueled the fires of my geekdom - first time I can recall being in a computer room with a raised floor
This is no ordinary 390. It's an ES/9000, which can have up to 128 processors.
one thing that makes it obvious this is a real working server room rather than a showpiece is how the equipment is a mix of brands and shoved in where there's space with cables going all over the place. Typically when server rooms are shown in presentations and even movies they're always clinically clean and perfectly orderly, which I've never seen in any server room and even modern server farms are never that tidy
I went to work for Smith Barney in 1989. They had IBM equipment; tape drives, reel to reel drives. And a library that held about 100,000 cartridge tapes and magnetic reels. I worked 4 to 12. We also ran the VM machine. Hectic but overall fun and a good job with good benefits. That's all gone now. Everything is automated, at least from the tape.
I worked on this equipment at Raytheon.
Token ring, 37xx communication controllers, 33xx controllers and 33xx disk drives. Over priced but could survive an atomic bomb. Very reliable electronics, built like an old Cadillac. Fun to work on when people didn’t take technology for granted as they do today.
The disk drives shown here were actually plug-compatibles made in Germany by Comparex- with HDAs made in Japan by Hitachi. Comparex is still around; nowadays they're a software company.
@@douro20 Hitachi built drives and entire machines on license from IBM because no one in Japan would buy IBM, so it typically made little difference whether it said Hitachi or IBM on the devices. This is also why IBM sold their storage division to Hitachi in 2003 without considering any other offers
Friggin love the music and footage. I'm weird. I know.
CheapSushi such rooms have only improved
@@silasmcgee3647 but not as fun, cheesy or aesthetically pleasing to me :P
@@CheapSushi fair although I could happily stand right in the middle of a 2022 dell data centre Just as much as an IBM server from the 90s
@@silasmcgee3647 As long as I see a bunch of blinkenlights, I'm happy. =P
@@CheapSushi especially if all the main room lights are turned off and the only thing you can see are the blinking LEDs
the music is the most 90s thing I've ever heard...
I love it!
same :D
Those were the good old days for sure, I grew up with the mainframe computers, they said that there would be a computer in every home, yeah right.
This music is cool :D
And so is this video. I love computer videos like this.
Me, too. This is what I have been waiting for in such a very long time.
Technician during this era had sony walkman on his belt. Few compilation cassetes in his bacpacks.
today they use their phone but not much changed .
those older systems really gobble up the power!
The good old days
That show was very nice and the music complemented it very well. I cannot believe that the System 390 replaced the System 370. Behold, it is not a System 390. I will admit that the computer is ES/9000. These are the old computers I really missed.
Really cool video - mainframes are awesome!
At 2:45 into the video, there is a screen that dates this to approximately May 1994.
They needed to upgrade then
@@elgeneralxx that means the video was taken in the 90s
Brought back memories for me - I started work in 86 and worked in a computer room exactly like this working on this exact equipment - Working for Gateway Foodmarkets Ltd (remember them? which then became Somerfield Stores) Happy days!!! On our next night shift, anyone wanna play the 'cage of death' or 'chair of challenge' Whilst Taz gets the coffees in? (private joke!! :-) )
Takes me back...
Never trust a computer you can lift.
There is still an ES9141 model 440 operating at Wichita State University. It's located in the School of Business.
Is it still there? :) --2020
@@grappydingus I don't think it's there anymore.
Very nice video! Good old times...
awesome stuff
@amaranthflavius MS? Windows? I was talking about System/3xx! Open source? IBM was giving loyal customers the source code on microfilm when "open source" wasn't even a "word" yet.
Great stuff
wipe yo poopy pants
@pvibien It doesn't have a name, I did it on my keyboard.
I really like the machines and the music as well. In fact, would you be willing to let me use a short segment of the music for my own channel (which I am trying to start)
@@midframedatasystems4365 OK
Dreamworld.
Candle Omega mon :) I remember them days that stuff.
Roland E5
@amaranthflavius no, it does not run hobbyist OSs
0:40 DEM GRAPHICS DOE ;)
MPRIVATS....Brings back memories. But we had the type where we manually loaded tapes.
So did we but we didn't have 5000 tapes either!
But that nw topology wouldn't pass an audit in our company today :) Cool vid!
Two questions: What do people do at the ops bridge? And what's the name of the song?
Wow TMON @ 00:34 It still looks the same. :)
I WANT THIS *SO BAAAAAAAAAD*
I have a Ibm s/390 mainframe any ideea where i can sell it?
emulate it!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@amaranthflavius I mean OS/3xx
What's the name of the music? (perhaps a MOD/S3M file?)
+Noah Covert Unfortunately it seems that the music was done specifically for this video on the creator's Roland E5 keyboard. Just look in the comments.
(i really want it too)
I doubt it was a module to begin with. Sounds more like something that came out of a drum machine than an actual computer. I ended up just downloading the video so I'm set!
I just found my new ringtone :)
I have a link to the music
Such a computer is in the Antonov Design Bureau.Thay have an old software for the one.
did you poop your pants and watch Phil Donahue tonight
yamaha psr-210 I believe
its like watching old porn movies. ..
what program did you use to make it?
CICS bullshit winner
Please let me know what is the name of this song played in the background.
@@KMFDM1 Thank you for tapping or typing to me!
@@KMFDM1 ⭐
Console operators are to run Computer-associates taiwan security of canadian blackberry then IML (initial microcode load) sony ps5 MIPS microcode into apple motorola g4/g5 IBM mainframe processor before IPL (initial program load).
If s390 failed, try next generation to s390 which is Z with Z-OS...
Virtual partitioning of processor... LPAR....
RISC plus .... = CISC
CISC minus .... = RISC
Huge cabinets just to have 22 GB. Man, how things have changed.
I think a lot of people don't realise what you can do with that much storage right now i have an 85 gb ssd and its giving me issues because windows uses too much strage filling it up with junk that seems to do nothing but i can't delete .but i used to have a phone with 16mb of storage and i had over 1000 pics and some mp3 and videos (the videos were very low quality and short not recommanded) in there. then i upgraded to 1 gb and it was like i had infinite storage i had a lot of clips in 240p and music on there not very impressive today but on the small screen it looked fine. or when i had a pc with a cd drive it seemed like it had so much on it games music video clips a lot of graphics all in 600mb .
with 22gb in the late 90s you could have enough content to keep you happy until modern times (if you could download or obtain all of that lol) .but i guess when this was recorded in 1990 you didn't have any multimedia and it was just used for corporate data .if you wanted to you could store games on it but all the games were less than 1mb in size back then. and these mainstreams ran a weird os and hardware architecture so nobody ported games on it. and the graphics were often even worse than desktops from the time because that was not their main focus .so i don't think you could even play videos or digitised audio on there mostly because it wasn't even a thing yet .but i think it literally just has a bunch of text only terminals for graphics so even for the time its not that great .
Do we know where this install was?
I think this is (was) the Armstrong World Industries datacenter in Lancaster County, PA. If not, everything looks exactly as I remember it.
James Fogg It is a site in the UK
TECHNOLOGY
looks like the enterprise in there
Do you still have the original background music?
Who made it?
I want to know too!
@@KMFDM1 Thanks a lot, I never expected that we would know its name
song name?
I Love it , but even with the new place there is just not enough storage space , couldn't put it in a whole modern one bedroom , how could one even start to collect this system ? , such a shame it takes up soo much space , I do have the keyboards , a few terminals , the cords for connecting it - I hope someone has a few of these :) QC
Looks like a lot of fun, but I heard someone comment recently that it's not as efficient as a modern furnace. Hate to run one in the summertime, especially with the climate shi[f]t.
A buddy of mine once had a large system in his basement, and I think he tried to heat the house with it.
I Concur , the Heat coming off of it in the Summer would be rough :\ QC
Don Ellis Time goes by for all us... A current z/OS Enterprise class can run hundreds of win/linux servers on the footprint of one x86 server rack. You will spare space, energy on servers and cooling, people to aassist.
how powerful is it, cpu and memory?
The power that this mainframe had would smoke todays PC based servers
At 0:34 What is this? Is this some kind of monitoring system for ops?
The display at 0:34 is real-time showing cpu usage by application
@@cristelvideo Ahh ok might be possibly a UNIX system then. Thanks for the amazing video!
No,t Unix - IBM MVS/ESA
@@cristelvideo My bad, thanks for correcting!
YES, load monitor
@amaranthflavius oh, yes this kernel panicking unix wannabe is popular, I'll give you that. Popular with the likes people who dared to call MySQL a database at time when it didn't even support transactions. It WILL get you alot from your PC based server, but I can't see why anyone would want to waste a high-end mainframe on it (and don't confuse them with super computers; lin is nice for that too).
I'm sad that IBM was in a place where it had to give in and help people port it there.
The music is only just shy of the cheesiness of porn groove played on a Bontempi home terror organ. AARGH!!1!
O.HO
think my phone has more power by today's standards
Overall processor speed - maybe. Raw data through put - no way.
What is unloadng 1:26
3490 tape cartridge - see a few seconds later
@@cristelvideo : square tapes, much more reliable than the round tapes.
0:39 htop
TMON actually
Wow, it's like porn. Mixed with computers. Now there's a novel concept... Someone could make billions... if only there was a way.
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Bulky computers,,
We could do without the music.
That's the best part! It makes it so cheesy, I love it even more.
Turn the volume down !
terrible "music"
I think it's excellent.