Jack Coats wrote: > IEFBR14 was my favorite utility. That, the internal card reader and > dependent job control (in JES2 and JES3), were my favorite utilities > and features back in the MVS days. I did start with MFT and HASP. > Once I finally understood JCL as a real language, it became as > powerful as any other language, and could do things others couldn't > (or would be harder to use for the purpose). > > Thanks for the stroll down memory lane. > Memory? No, they call that "storage". > (Yes, I am still a geek. Finally of retirement age. I purchased an > Altair 8800 with my first 'real job' paycheck after college. And so > much more money has gone down the computer rat hole since... I don't > want to think about it!) > Yup, built an 8008 CPU with 256 bytes of memory in 1976 or so. Then built an S-100 system, upgraded to Z-80 and used that for a while. Built a 32-bit bit-slice cpu with 96-bit control store width which worked, but never got much microcode written. Then had an opportunity to "borrow" a microvax that had been smashed in shipment, but still worked. When I had to give it back I went out and bought a microvax, board by board from brokers and was in HEAVEN! This was in 1986. I upgraded it a couple times, and finally retired it a couple years ago. it was completely obsolete by that time, of course. But, it ran some environmental monitoring tasks around my house for the last decade or so.
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