Re: Basement tinkerers and inventors

On Sep 1, 6:46 pm, Robert Jones <rjon...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Aug 29, 6:59 pm, Graham Hobbs <gho...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:



Odd notes I made about BT/I's:

- am just exploring any value/interest to a group/groups for BT/I's
(basement tinkerers and inventors) or is there a place already for
these people; are there many of us, what are we doing?

- BT/I by implication means PC software development; IBM Main, COBOL,
etc seem mostly geared to the high end

- is a BT/I scope too wide e.g. projects in java, cobol, web, VB,
mainframe, non-mainframe, drivers ... ad infinitum?

- what would be a reasonable sub titles?

- my personal interests would be groups ltitled 'BT/I Websphere
Developer for z/OS' and 'BT/I Cobol, CICS, VSAM, DB2'

- five years ago I wrote letters to IBM, Microfocus, Microsoft and
McKinney about something I was developing; there are at least three
black holes on this planet

- via such groups I would be interested in listening to people with
similiar interests, financial constraints, tiny company size,
technical problems, etc.

- is all this naive, impractical, not needed?

Thanks
Graham Hobbs

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There's no harm asking, but I would have thought that much of the
computer side of Google Groups was relevant in such areas as
comp.lang.* alt.lang.* and bit.listserve.*. Many people interested in
the main frame side do make useful developments as a sideline, though
there isn't the mass market there as opposed to developing for PCs.
There is a website, whose name and address I forget, that provides a
forum or market exchange for people who wish to supply and obtain
programming services for specific specified tasks, not an IT Jobs
forum. I believe it also provides a means for payment for the
specific tasks too. I think this has come up in earlier discussions
in this group, but again I don't remember what the topic title was.

Good luck anyway

Robert

I found the link as follows

http://www.rentacoder.com/RentACoder/SmallBiz.asp?txtFromURL=AId


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