Yep, I started writing BAL on a 360/20 in night school while i was a computer operator on a 360/40 DOS/VS/POWER. That was in the early 1970s. So i am approaching the 40 yr mark also. I have been a Computer Operator, DOS/VSE, VM/ESA and OS/VS2/HASP. Systems Programming (OS and VTAM.TCP,NCP,NPSI and JES2 and RSCS and on on it goes) and now a developer. Didnt have the 1401 experience, ran a emulator or simulator on a 360/40 for the autocoder programs...man thats been ages Scott J Ford
________________________________ From: Tom Russell <tom_russ...@ca.ibm.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Mon, April 19, 2010 6:06:00 PM 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
