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What made you decide to enlist as an Equipment Operator? Have you managed to get yourself degree or two on the Big Navy's dime yet?

Why were you in Kyrgyzstan? It is a landlocked country with no access to the sea! lol.

BGW's question got unanswered!!! Surely that's at least 45/45, reduction in rank, right? :P

So if I want to try out mainframe or learn more about it, what's the cheapest and easiest way to go about doing it? I suppose I used the word arcane, because nobody else around me seem to use it.

I actually did one of the mainframe challenge. It was the 2011 edition of this.

My general impression was that it was hard to access mainframe, everything there was arcane.

I have to say I still don't quite understand the lure of mainframe. Why do some people prefer mainframe over a cluster of server? Is there still a big market for mainframe?