There were places around that rent time.  There was also a place offering free accounts, I don&#x27;t even remember the name now.  There&#x27;s one hell of a learning curve, makes it really hard to do anything other than poke around when you don&#x27;t know the params to code in a jcl to compile a program.  My first gig was mainframe cobol, the company put everyone thru a 3 month training program, that&#x27;s the only reason I know anything about it.