From: "Thomas Berg"
Who dropped the deck ?
Randy did... It was Friday late afternoon. Randy was in a rush to leave. He was already late and his project was late. He dropped a nearly full tray, close to 2000 cards of COBOL source decks, laced with compile, link, data generator and exec JCL. This is the only time I ever saw a grown-up man sit on the floor and literally sob and cry !! (ca.'68/69 at CNR). During program development, when the *combo* of program name or id plus seq.numbers were most needed, they were nearly always absent, unreliable or virtually useless. Randy's tray contained: JESaaaaaa*ESbbbbb*ESccccc*ESmmmm*ESkk*ESttt*// where: J job card E exec proc card S sysin dd * * /* a b c ... t module source decks, object decks, link-edit, test data Best was _ALL_ of this: Interpreted cards with punched program-id + seq.no, using both white and colored cards and lastly, maintaining felt pen marks across to top of each deck. Today? Occasionally a nice and handy feature in desperate need for a new purpose! Andreas F. Geissbuehler
