Wow a blast from the past for me Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Mar 2, 2012, at 1:40 PM, Chris Mason <chrisma...@belgacom.net> wrote: > Lloyd > >> ...> When we used PCP on the Model 40 with 64K. > > Back in 1967/8, a colourful customer on the patch to which I belonged was > running PCP on a 64K machine and it may have been a 360/40. Our ace young > salesman had been responsible for this! IIRC this was considered the opposite > of the leading edge but it seemed to work for a while! > > While we did have a customer - a university - genuinely at the leading edge > with a 360/67, I worked at the crowded lower end among the 360/30s running > DOS/360. My first responsibility was assisting a customer with the "free" > time converting from a 1400 system to a 360/30 with DOS/360. > >> Then at night we ran the 1401 emulator to do the production runs. > > If I ever knew I'd forgoten that the 360/40 also had a 1401 emulator just as > the 360/30 had. > >> ... a model 1401 printer ... > > This will have been one of the models of the 1403, the N1 model of which > extended the life of the marque well into the 360 era and beyond. > > Chris Mason > > On Fri, 2 Mar 2012 05:26:58 -0800, Lloyd Fuller <leful...@sbcglobal.net> > wrote: > >> I did not see the message that you are quoting below from Shmuel. We were >> running a printer from the spooler. I thought that it was a model 1401 >> printer, >> but I could be wrong. >> >> We were definitely running OS/360, not DOS/360. We ran OS/360 during the >> day to >> convert 1401 AUTOCODER programs to COBOL by rewriting them. Then at night we >> ran the 1401 emulator to do the production runs. This was all in 1969. >> >> I was a programmer and not an operator. I know that the few times that we >> needed more than the standard memory, we were told that they had to re-IPL >> OS/360. Nothing was said about a DEFINE command. >> >> Lloyd > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
