You're career sounds frighteningly like mine. I started as a systems programmer in 1978 at Milwaukee County, where I worked before as an operator and then an applications programmer. We had a 3032 also, but I thought it came in around 1975 or so. I may be wrong.
I remember our conversion from VS1 to MVS 3.7, which was in 1978 and early 79. I think we used a Panvalet product for the editor in VS1. I liked SPF on MVS 3.7 a lot better. I also did VM. I can't remember when I started doing VM, but I know it was finally retired in Feb. 1999. Then they didn't have to worry about Y2K on VM, since we were on R5 of VM. I remember hearing that there weren't a lot of 3032's made. A lot more 3033s and 3031s. If I remember right, the 3032 was about the same speed as a 370/168. -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer ---- Jim Marshall <jim.marsh...@opm.gov> wrote: > In 1978 I had the honor to have the first IBM 3032 shipped (#000006) into the > Pentagon when I worked at the Air Force Data Services Center. I already had > in place an IBM 360-75J which ran TSO. With the IBM 3032 came IPO 1.0 and we > also receive the full-screen product called "IBM 3270 Display and Structure > Prgramming Facility" or as people called it SPF. > > Later in the early 1980s it morphed into ISPF and a few years later it split > into ISPF and PDF. PDF came with all the facilities to write ISPF > applications. It was for those who did not want to buy the precoded ISPF > dialogs. Then in the middle 1980s I also worked on VM and their was an ISPF > and PDF for VM. The notion was you'd learn ISPF and it would be almost the > same in both world. Except the diehard VM'ers loved CMS. > > Later in the early 1990s I recall ISPF and PDF merged back into ISPF; except > over in VM where it remains today. If you look at VM's DIRMAINT software it > will have a pre-requisite of these products but indeed only if you want to > use their precoded ISPF application. Save your money. > > Very interesting times. Jim Marshall, Capt, USAF-Ret > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
