Your correct the 402 and 407 boards were similar. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry
-----Original Message----- From: Mike Myers <m...@mentor-services.com> Sender: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 18:42:03 To: <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Reply-to: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu> Subject: Re: Last card reader? Rick: No, it was definitely a 402. The 407 was around at the time, but I never got trained on it. If I recall correctly, the boards looked a lot the same. Mike Myers On 08/17/2011 06:27 PM, Rick Fochtman wrote: > ------------------------------------<snip>----------------------------- > >> Wow, a 402!! Who'd have guessed there was still one running outside a >> museum? >> >> I learned "programming" when I was taught to wire the board that >> controlled one of those. I also used to maintain them as a Field >> Engineer, but that was in 1964. >> >> I last worked on one in 1966 before I left for system 360 programming >> school in Poughkeepsie (I haven't seen once since). :-) > > ---------------------------------<unsnip>--------------------------------- > > Was that a 402 or a 407? I still have a 407 board that takes 80 > columns from the first card and 52 columns from the second line to > create a single 132-character line. It was the only way we could get a > print-out from our 1620. > > Rick > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
