On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2008/5/30 Russell L. Harris : > > I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then, > > it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched > > cards) before loading the application. > > It must have been fun to watch someone play pickup 500 and put them > all back in order again.
IIRC, each card had a sequence number. I don't know if they had card-sorter machines. That was the thing, every function to apply to a set of cards was a different machine. However, I'm of the opinion firmly that the lessons and skills learned in those times which became the mainframe culture gives rise to a different type of sysadmin than unix does. Even in the same company. I've known IBM people and the AIX types are fundamentally different than the (now) Z/OS types. Unfortunaly, I haven't collected enough quarters [1] from them to join the ranks. Doug. [1] from the famous joke "here's a quarter kid, go buy yourself a real computer". -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]