Thanks for the update. I just watched the video and I loved his passion. It reminded me of my parents support. I told my parents, I wanted to learn how to fly and be an airline pilot. I soloed at 16 and got my private license at 17. I retired from my major airline career at the mandatory age of 65. I would not of made it without supportive parents.

I came in to the comment to see where he is these days. I’ve watched this vid so many times over years. 😂 well done on the persistence….. message here: guide your kids properly, nurture there interests if they are wholesome 🙏💖

what a fucking mad lad...

And he is working there for 7 years 8 months up to now, it means no long from this video, he got hired by IBM.

Does he still wear black shirts, and does he like them?

+Joe Krukosky Nice work Joe. My son just turned 1, and I hope I can help him be as driven, curious, and passionate about something in this world as you and your wife have.

Parenting done right haha

+Joe Krukosky Good man Joe. When I was 18 I was probably drunk and puking out the side of a van. At 24-25 I never wanted to see another piece of green bar paper again or write another line of COBOL...and I never did after college. Is he going to fire up some COBOL apps with JCL? :)

+Joe Krukosky I wish him all the best, and i hope you can find suitable storage .

+Sean Chase That's a question you'd have to ask him. I'm with you on the green bar paper, except the language was LISP, then C++.

Yes, I agree. And I go back to the days of punched tape backup, key and lamp entry of boot-loaders. My (late) uncle Peter showed me the mercury delay memories he first used back in the day. Then came magnetic disc storage, with the intern tuning the head height above the medium. Old iron is rugged, learning it is impressive. Buying one for the price of a cheap fondleslab is awesome. Getting it going is exceptional.

About as much as needed for operating a C64.

I completely agree! Very cool and inspirational as well.

I studied normal pc computers and nothing of this is known to me, except ftp LOL

@@MmeHyraelle LOL... you "studied" normal PC computers? As in: you compared the latest offers from Dell and Alienware? XD

Cool, at least it wasn't APPLE

has he got the 125$/Month license now for free? :D

@@markhunt840 you use a Android I guess? Go figure.

I am happy to hear that! IBM better hang on to this one... that's a rare breed of human. I can only hope to have an offspring like this one day!

Source? I'd love an update

+Toby Wong 100% agreed. Good parents are essential to getting things like this off the ground.

+Toby Wong if my father and mother had a bit more money and knew more then, ide be better off.. but i cant blame them to much. im alive. i made plenty of bad decisions. everyone used to call me the little genius, terring computers, vcrs and engines apart but i still would never do my home work! i paying dearly for how lazy i was and all the drugs and alcohol of highschool.

+Toby Wong WE NEED A KID LIKE THIS. U GO KID

this kid is so lucky if i found something like this, my mom would fucking KILL me

Google didn't IPO until about 2002.

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Chris Benard i love you

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CORALLL THAT KILLZ PEOPLE

Thatguy101987 Poke his eye out as well.

savior1976 same I don't know what I watched but I enjoyed it so much

yeah same here. I only expected to watch a couple minutes but ended up watching the whole thing.

I do software development for one of these machines and even I don't know 99% of what he was talking about.

same

Great thing to get into

Damn.

TheBushdoctor68 DA DA TA TA DA ..

Wasn't that John?

TheBushdoctor68 that's neo in the matrix the 1.

Michael Sykes his full name is john Connor

in 1984 my middle school teacher stated computer consoles (My trs-80) was proof that man was busy making gaming electronics that would not last, nor help with anything. fast forward. I manage networks and make quite a bit more then he ever would. I bet he died when he was told to use direct deposit.

S A M E

You can get a free lesson in economics just by playing any long standing MMORPG. That's not even a slight joke

Clachan a Choin lmao

Mentally Distant Aleks Hilarious, or scary, that you said that. I was watching the news the other day and to buy all the currency in World of Warcraft (in game) would cost more than the US GDP, or roughly 19 trillion usd. That is insane.

I bought 3 Commodore Pet computers. I just thought they looked cool. One friend of mine decided to fire them up and diagnose them. I was baffled that he was able to figure out what needed to be fixed. I mean that's cool, but what's the point. What would be worth running on them. Then at World of Commodore 2015, I watched someone making music from it. I guess that's the point of the community. I just wanted them because I'm a collector, but because I have this community I can get them working and actually have a purpose for them.

@@commodoresixfour7478 and then you ascended and became Commodore 64 Man

@purplinko war games hilarious. This dude can seriously fuck up North Korea for the next ten years. Not a bad come up for $350

So you tried to clone windows 10? Your best bet would have been to use eufiyumi and create a pendrive... thats the easy part though... where most fail is trying to get the pendrive to boot first... but again if you understand PCs then its as easy as changing the BIOS on you PC... Im a distrohopper my pendrive is set up to boot; AndroidX86 Debian Kali Kodachi LinuxMint Porteus Tails SteamOS SuperGamerOS Voyager Windows10

@@ShadowDeus u are cool, and he is like " USB cable wasn't working"

perfect - thanks

We should all be so lucky. :)

I feel his screws are pretty thight.

He is perfect the way he is.

Far from it,This kid`s screws are exact down to the last 1000th of an inch,,VERY switched on and by now has probably gone very far since he did this,Great speaker,FANTASTIC grasp on tech and a TOTAL understanding of how tech works and takes the time to find out

(I'll blog it don't worry)

kilo-charlie

Spi Rale your algorithms likely indicate that you are eclectic and hard to fit. Feel lucky you are not being recommended Kim Kardashian, monster truck or wrestling vids

Thank you and algorithms then!

Spi Rale me to, I like listening to lectures about things I know nothing about..

M squared - Please make a video

fucking funny. Like probably the first time I've laughed out loud that hard in years. Thank you

that's fucking sad

Did you try to remoisterize the dingle bop with fleeb juice? Sometimes that helps make the plumbus usable again.

You been watching Rick and Morty again? O_o

Just as well it wasn't Microsoft! They'd just shove upgrades down his throat, without giving him the choice first!

They offered him z/OS 1.13 at 3MSU for $128 a month. Then they hired him to work at Poughopsky on the condition he started college.

I feel the same way (18 years working in IT and many years learning before that.) This video is from March of 2016 so I'd like to know where he's at now. He will do great. I'm sure he'll end up at MIT or something.

I was thinking the same thing. Curious where that mind of his has taken him over this last year.

God damn, after 15 seconds in IT, I forgot what real passion looked like. By that time you are already screwed.

@@MyNextShotWontMiss i googled him and he works for IBM designing mainframes, i think it's the good ending

I wish I could give this more than one thumbs up.

You can always create more google accounts... ;-)

:( now i can never like this comment

The keypunch is a word processing machine without a back spacing key. Used them in college and early in my career.

Thomas Moerman A little dry.

not dry, just niche :P

lol, yeah I was also waiting for what the big deal was, because the title suggested something interesting happened.

The whole thing was interesting... Considering the view and like count I think it's safe to assume several thousand other people think so as well.

Anon Ymoose he also told the whole story of how far he went to get the old thing online.

It's kinda like if he bought an old racing car and made it driveable again. It's not like he's gonna go race on it or do deliveries - it's outdated anyways. What's cool is that he made it work pretty much all by himself.

I'd have some epic track days with an old racing car.

thanks fam

You make it sound as if he programmed an operating system, which he did not.

at least he doesn't make it sound like he programmed a clock for school

Should be TLDW (too long didn't watch) :D

Or TL;DW. Gotta watch those semicolons if you want to be a programmer.

If Microsoft would have declared FSX to open source, one could port it - many powerfull processors for scenery rendering ;-)

It can run a GUI interface. Do you think it can run Crysis?

Ok, but can I watch porn on it?

No, it was supposed to be funny, this system is not intended to execute graphics at all.

What a useless piece of metal ;-DD

poor you..

Are you there yet? :)

Diagnostic imaging is nothing but computing intensive. Got my first Sun workstation from a hospital diagnostic imaging lab, as it was replaced with a superior, more modern unit.

Do computational studies (systems biology, bioinformatics, computational neuroscience)

I hope that someday you’re able to do what you love...and then someday use such a unique skill set to make a difference.

GovDeals is simply amazing for shit like this. I mean for christs sake there's an entire ferry for sale for 100 grand.

Good 4 u dude. I started learning ibm 1401 MF @ 15 while while in high school. I've celebrated my silver birthday last month. ..

kinda. he said a 10 years old machine or 10 years ago the machine cost$350k

Aside from IO bandwidth, the small linux server I'm in the process of building is way more powerful than this thing from the 2000s, lol. Especially the CPU, some googling suggests that a 32 core z990 can manage almost 10,000 MIPs, and the CPU I'm getting can actually manage more than 50,000. And that's rounding up for the z990 and down for the Ryzen. It's kinda insane, really. Moore's law is clearly still in full effect.

@@YourIdeologyIsDelusional Moore's law is actually over. Silicon cannot keep up.

@@MmeHyraelle That is the dumbest phrase I think I've ever heard anyone say. Only in the most literal sense can that be interpreted as true, which is missing the point when the industry is dominated by constantly improved manufacturing, and lateral design. "Silicon cannot keep up." With what? You say that like there's an alternative that doesn't require near absolute zero temperatures and a massive cooling apparatus that chugs power.

+dan braun I wanted a PDP-11/23 in the mid-1980's... Physics was getting rid of it and I thought, "Great toy!". Parents thought: Not gonna happen.

Wow, System/32s are quite rare nowadays, I doubt you still have them but if you do I would love to see some pictures! Awesome! I love hearing about stories of people's experiences with older machines, just like that, starting one of the first ISPs in your area out of the basement of a friend's house. Would have loved to experienced making an ISP, it sounds like an awesome challenge. -Connor Krukosky

Around 1986 a small university near me (it had recently changed it's name to "(name deleted) University" from "(name deleted) Community College"), which had for its computer system a PDP-11 from the 70's they had bought second-hand, decided to buy a backup. The new PDP-11 came in a desktop case (the old one was bigger than a washing machine, and with all of its accessories it filled a classroom). I wanted a PDP-11 so badly, but it was way out of my price range.

...and I know exactly which community/university you speak of!

Around 15 years ago, most people around here (europe) only had modem connections, smaller villiages were not being offered DLS connection. Me and a few friends took ccna classes after shool and thought about how to fix that problem. We found an industrial area next to 1 villiage and got our first "lightning fast" 4 Mbit connection. Got an old HP proliant 19" server and built a proxy. The more interresting part came with wifi connections and self build yagi antennas for each house and adding some converted computers as routers to further distribute that network. Shortly after the first few reliable connected houses, it became a non profit organisation which serves around 400 housholds. I moved away, but the last state i remeber were 8x32 MBit not that impressive, but its whats aviable there. Proxys and Loadbalancers on vmware on 4 proliants + hot spares. And i would never want to miss ILO on a remote server. Its still running and being upgraded, because who knew, the telco companies are still to lazy to upgrade the lines there. At (mandantory) military service, i went into com-tec. Travel the world, meet interresting people and connect them. At the moment im working on a similar project which will provide faster access for a whole region, one handfull of villages at a time

He has. He works at IBM now

The place he went was IBM, where he works on mainframe firmware since shortly after the video.

+Tom Courtney Maybe if he could make a clock, then he'd get a job ;)

Wes Keown nice meme

IBM did

HighlanderRick being funny or srs? Source?

www.fastcompany.com/3063265/how-to-be-a-success-at-everything/this-teenage-ibm-employee-got-his-job-by-buying-an-old-mai

That 370/145 great for small MVS & DOS MF applications. DD statements/ DLBL&EXTENT. I met my beautiful wife at work, she a data entry 😍 lady, me a 360/30 DOS application programmer.

+Saren Arterius Maybe you should just buy a larger mainframe, leave some of the disk cabinets empty, and move in? It could start a trend ^^

+Salafrance Heating included :D

Try a server. A small Ikea Lack can fit it. Run VMs, play with VMWare ESXi.

Connor might be ready for time sharing by now... lol

fuck all of u including the family

maybe for an electronics guy

Maukie Paukie well you are hating ob the kid.

As someone who has taken a college public speaking course and seen how badly even people who are uncomfortable in front of a small, closed room of their peers can crash and burn when giving a speech, this kid is VERY good at the long-form presentation. He's fine for *any* age. I've seen professionals give presentations that are far worse than this. Hell, I've seen speakers in TED talks that are worse than this.

Fine, yes. But I wouldn't call him good, but that's just my opinion what do I know? :P

Mortuus Why not good? Give arguments dude. We have nothing with your opinion unless you give some damn arguments :)

yep, well. that crowd of old peeps actually understands what that kid went thru to this point to learn and make it happen. as a sys admin myself, i admire that kid.

I once bought a ball-in-a-cup game. Couldn't even catch the damn ball.

"head and platter locks" Woke up this morning feeling good. Now I just feel old. Gonna 'park' my MFM and go back to bed.

+Alan Brown and 8Gigs of ram in it!

More than the ultrabooks.

Technology marches on, but its even more amazing what you can run on this "outdated" hardware. The same ist true for network equipment etc.

actually it isn't that suprising because at launch this thin cost a pretty penny

When the Sun i386 came out they cost 28k each. 5 yrs. later I got 2 of them for free.

+mike klaene Good stuff! An Amdahl 370 clone is what I learned on... PL/1 and 370 BAL, and much hair-tearing-out by the admins of the school I attended, as I learned about MVS internals, spelunked my way through system tables, later converted my manual system-table-scanning to GQSCAN-based scanning, and got access to all manner of things by learning how to work around ACF2 by using another system program the university used, to assign myself the privileges required for whatever I wanted to do. The least supportive of the people there chased me for years, uncomfortable with the idea of a technically-inclined young female, until this made him unwelcome at the school. The most supportive gave me manuals and respected that I just wanted to learn. :-) I had one of those experiences where I went back to the mainframe world after 5 years away from it, brought in as a contractor to convert a PC-based calculation program to the mainframe. After the first 30 seconds, during which I was confused at why the line feed key didn't let me log on (LOL), I stopped trying to remember how to do it, and just did it. The client had planned on sending me to an ISPF class, having contracted for a PC C programmer, having no idea that the mainframe was my native stomping ground. Needless to say, they didn't send me to the class. Within 2 weeks, someone in the area (the systems group) called out a question about how to find a control block, and without even thinking, my brain fully back in the school computer room, I yelled out the answer, because in the school computer room, that's how the hackers worked. The office stopped. Heads peeked over partitions. Was that that 25-year-old C programmer? The girl? I was offered a job within days, but a non-compete agreement with my then-employer made it impossible to make a move. I haven't touched a mainframe since, and have gone on to do some decent UNIX work including some at lower levels, but I'll never know a system as well as I knew MVS back in the day.

+Random Hi Random! Good going there. Where I learned programming, half of the staff was female. I was mentored by a lady who was the same age as my Mom. I had just turned 23 at the time. Do not know why more girls do not get into tech. My 13 YO grand daughter says that the cool girls do not do that. For 'high' level languages, C is my favorite. It works the way I think. I have been retired for over a year now and 'play' with Arduino and learning Swift for Mac and iOS. Swift is interesting but there is just too much OOP magic going on for my taste. Luckily, Xcode for the Mac supports straight C but I have yet to figure out how to write a GUI app with C. Hopefully you can keep getting paid to play with the toys!

Alex Coral*

Alex Mom is kill Coral. MOM IS KILL!

sweet!

CJ! Dayum son, it's good to see you!

not carl *C0RRUHLLL*

Honestly, I'm pretty certain the scrap value alone is higher than he paid for it... so yeah, they're going for less than scrap value it seems. I'd love a Z-Series, but I'd kill for an old Prime 750 running Primos ... I guess you never forget your first taste of big metal, eh? The beige and orange colour scheme is a bit awkward, but hey... it was the 70's ; ) My current home system is a beowulf cluster that clocks in at 2,047 Kgs. Three 36U IBM (old round-holed) 19" Chassis, with the SxS attachment kits - because who doesn't love a nicely contoured IBM door ... and housing a bank of 3x3 Dell m1000e blade chassis. It's a monster. But I'd love some 70's metal running a few VT100 or 3270 EBDIC terminals... I even have three working ADM-3A's just sitting waiting ; )

Scrap? The landfill probably would have charged the school a fee per weight of e-waste, and they would have had to hire a hauler or move it themselves on top of that, too.

@@HighestRank actually, there's a fair amount of value in metals, some precious and semi-precious, which can be industrially recovered. Then there's the not-inconsiderable bare weight of the steel chassis and all that wiring get's its plastics stripped and the copper is melted down for resuse. Of course, if you just choose to drive it off for landfill then I doubt anyone is going to mention it or offer you anything... and, yes, if you look naive they may indeed try charging you for the privilege. But there's a reason scrap-men are quite happy to pick up your old broken washing machine for free. The copper windings of the motor are cut off and the steel is all melted down... but older gold-laiden processors? Heavy unadulterated copper heatsinks? 100kg steel frames? ... well, that's a payday. Just the external chassis, bare, is easily worth about £300 scrap before you start chemical reclamations on gold and copper bearing components. The real reason a lot of it goes to scrap isn't so much to do with a lack of intrinsic value - it's often to zero-rate it for tax purpose (depending on tax jurisdiction).

What makes me feel old is that IBM came out with the PC 10 years after I got a degree in engineering and I spent my last 30 years working as an IT network systems engineer. The pace of change over that time increased exponentially. Non-tech bosses that required few new skills, little new knowledge were paid better.

@@pssst3 oh, I don't know... it had it's bright moments. For a while in the late 90's up to the mid 2000's I was averaging over £600 a day, in N&T and most of that was on a single cert. Boefore that - in the 80's I was making excellent money writing C for people who used COBOL … and then by the 90's I was making big money maintaining COBOL for people who hadn't paid me in the 80's … I have a friend that recently (2016) helped a behemoth telecoms giant move away from legacy COBOL on AS/400s (the AS400's had been removed and replaced with fast virtual appliances running slow ugly 70's code) … basically, they emulated their old system for decades, terrified of their own high integration... and my friend got 6-figures plus expenses and bonus, because you just can't find people with a beard long enough to be comfortable in 70's architecture running on modern virtualisation. Thing is, every lucrative niche has its time, the trick with niches is avoiding getting stuck in them. Visit them all, sure, but keep moving forward looking for niches your history of niche-hopping uniquely equips you for. In IT you just have to keep moving or you drown. It's useful to remember that everyone and his grandmother (and his grandmothers parrot) is flocking to study for the job that you are doing now... so, always be re-training the new specialisations - and remember you're a commodity - like a coin, you're not worth anything sitting in someones pocket - your value is always found in the market. I retired at 37, but couldn't bear it after being so active, so a year later I started up a consultancy. I think a good IT rule of thumb is : Every 12 months, if you're not doing something new, you're doing something wrong ; )

Imagine LOST. Punch the numbers or the apocalypse will be on your doorstep!

This machine has ZERO graphics capability. No need for it. Its meant to PROCESS huge amounts of data, drawing cute pictures is not what this machine is built for

TheEpongeMan C:\DOS, C:\DOS\RUN, RUN\DOS\RUN

/FORREST/

how is that useful in any way?

it all starts from little things like that :)

hotfreshrider LMAO

Thanks. If only he had used more understandable terms like these, the whole talk would have been much more interesting (to most people here)!

@@DrorF It comes from dealing with MainFrames. IBM has it's own language, and if you spend some time around it you become accustomed to it.

@@jimbarino2 All tech talk honestly any Jargon

cics = customer Information control system

oh my god, oh my god, the flashback. DASD, IPL, TSO, GUTS, CICS, RPG, JCL ... I feel sick, like throwing up my coffee

DuckieMcduck i'm 34 years old and I start college in the fall, it's never too late to get back up and get your life started

+Nige N That sounds less like an issue with the education system and more of a personal gripe of yours. What you consider wasted time could have been valuable time to another student. It is unfair to try and discourage others because you personally did not find success with it.

Strive for enjoyment in life, and not necessarily success. Enjoyment leads to success more often than success leads to enjoyment. Like, if you are pressured into going to college for engineering or something similar but do not like math, science, or like understanding why things work like they do, then you probably shouldn't major in it. Keep in mind passion can also be discovered later on in life. It's never a bad idea to try new things, either. My suggestion is really seek application for your passion rather than having other people suggest or tell you what to do for a career. Personally I am fairly fortunate. I have always had interests in numbers and general mathematics. Although my primary hobby was (is) gaming, I stuck to a secondary interest (which was mathematics) and found electrical engineering to be a good fit for me, as concepts and applications of concepts like signal processing are heavily math based. That was pretty rambly, but hopefully I said something that made you feel a bit better about this. Ultimately, just try to enjoy life as much as you can, as cliche as that saying is.

Is VSE still around? I LOVE the DOS days. The old rivalry if MVS V. DOS etc. I always chuckled when EVERYTHING in MVS began with IE. Like IEBGENER, IEBCOPY etc. Loved DITTO too :) I begain on a 407 plugboard wiring to 1401, 360, 370, 4300 series, s/390 etc. I was a sysyems programmer for many decades. I worked at a bank and my boss demanded I put MVS on a 4381 box. After telling him it would run like crap he didnt care because he only knew MVS and said DOS is dead. I installed it and we ran it for 3 months, then as a test, I installed DOS/VSE-SP on it and jobs ran MUCH faster. He got fired a month later. I did things with a mainframe that IBM said could not be done, like got it connected to the ATM network that used a proprietary communication protocol. I got COBOL programs to dynamically call other COBOL programs. I could wallpaper my house with bug fix notifications from IBM. I was on a first name basis with PSRs haha

It's the parents who caused him to get interested. So it's the previous generation that has the most influence of the kids of today.

You old farts think you're so high and mighty. Most of you can't even be trusted to manage your credit card bills.

KiloByte Epic burn.

A nation of morons.

shit parents create shit kids

oddly enough China tried to access my gmail as well.

Was that a hacking attempt by China or something? What would China want with a basic website?

They don't usually know what it is til they've logged into it. Presumably they're expecting a generic PC to enslave in a botnet. They send out automated hacking attempts, thousands at a time.

PseudoSarcasm He works at IBM now

Jaezen Harper That's great, I think a lot more kids should get picked up by companies. Lots of talented kids are wasting away in colleges.

I really wouldn't say college is a waste of time. At my university anyway, most students in my major, electrical engineering, find employment not long after graduation.

TheArnoldification I understand your point, and partially agree that engineering /maths/medicine degrees are more useful. My general point is that most of the things you learn at school/university are useless and don't prepare you for life or a job. (most people learn most of what they need on the job, not in college) I think the educational system is outdated and much better systems can be created. I won't go onto it too much, some people will agree, some will disagree.

PseudoSarcasm Ah okay, fair enough. I just get a little peeved when it is generalized to be "college in it's entirety is useless". You can at most consider it to be an *approximately* true statement in the context of employment rates I suppose, but statements like these tend to devalue the minority, who in this case are properly trained (usually) to be productive and marketable in college. I'm probably just being a baby about it though. I dunno, I work hard and it's upsetting to hear people call college a waste of time even though I am technically an outlier of some description, lol

***** I never said it was easy I know it's not plugging in a router you got at bestbuy. Difficult, challenge accepted.

+Rickard Johansson Fuck the mainframe I wish I was 18 again!

+Jose Francisco Medeiros Only the knowledge of the mistakes you made is enough.

+Jose Francisco Medeiros What his father and mother do? Trying to get him adopted by someone I gues.

***** Regardless of costs it's great with parents that support their kids in their endeavors.

dunno if Connor has a copy, but yes, it can run Doom. The first program run on mainframe Linux (outside of IBM) was Doom, probably December of 1999.

That's pretty interesting

Yes.

Gunther Ultrabolt Novacrunch I am indeed strong here.

he has no muscles and half a brain he is unworthy

halburd1 don't inhale glue before posting comments mate.

you are also charming!! and he is great!

Overkill Don't think so

Overkill one has now, 3 hours ago.

Overkill yeah a year ago