In <of64999155.948bfae8-on8525770a.0077cc3b-8525770a.00796...@ca.ibm.com>, on 04/19/2010 at 06:06 PM, Tom Russell <tom_russ...@ca.ibm.com> said:
>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 ITYM tape system; the assembler for a cards only 1401 was SPS. >Not a fond memory, but an interesting one. The 650 we were taking out >had a 2 (4?) KB drum memory. Wronk size; the 650 was a decimal machine, and the drum size was measured in 10 digit words. Ours has 2K words, but there was a 4K model. >The autocoder (think BAL) The BAL equivalent was SPS. >High/Low/Equal compare was a special feature on a 1401. Well, yes, but then index registers were a special feature on the 650. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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