That's a great story. My first job was with a service bureau, with the main client being Grove Press in NY. I was an operator working on a 360/20, 360/30 and 360/40. About 25 years ago after a Share meeting in Boston, a friend and I went to their Computer Museum and I saw all 3 systems on display. That's when I realized how long I've been in the business.
Thanks for the memories, George Rodriguez Specialist II - IT Solutions Application Support / Quality Assurance PX - 47652 (561) 357-7652 (office) (561) 707-3496 (mobile) School District of Palm Beach County 3348 Forest Hill Blvd. Room B-332 West Palm Beach, FL 33406-5869 Florida's Only A-Rated Urban District For Five Consecutive Years ----- Original Message ----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Mon Apr 19 18:06:00 2010 Subject: Re: 45 years of Mainframe > I, alas, started on a much slower > machine, the 650, about which I feel *no* nostalgia. I do, however, > have fond memories of the 7094. Nice. My first job as a coop student at IBM was to convert a 650 SOAP program that ran the Toronto plant to a 1401 card system Autocoder program. I think I still have the card systems Autocoder compiler decks somewhere. I did read the SOAP program to figure out what the program did, but never wrote any 650 code myself. Not a fond memory, but an interesting one. The 650 we were taking out had a 2 (4?) KB drum memory. The autocoder (think BAL) program I wrote to replace it was for a 4 KB 1401 card system. High/Low/Equal compare was a special feature on a 1401. Tom Russell "Stay calm. Be brave. Wait for the signs." - Jasper FriendlyBear "... and remember to leave good news alone." - Gracie HeavyHand ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------Palm Beach County Schools--------------------- Rated "A" by the Florida Department of Education 2005-2009 -----Home of Florida's first LEED Gold Certified School----- -----------http://www.palmbeachschools.org------------- The District of Palm Beach County is an Equal Education Opportunity Provider and Employer. Under Florida law, e-mail addresses are public records. If you do not want your e-mail address released in response to a public records request, do not send electronic mail to this entity. Instead, contact this office by phone or in writing. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
