When I went in 1969, we used a 1401 with 4 tape drives. We were taught COBOL but could not compile: the COBOL compiler for the 1401 needed either disk or at least 6 tape drives.
We also learned to "program" PCM and two Univac SAAL computers that were in use by the Army at the time. Lloyd ----- Original Message ---- From: Ed Finnell <efinnel...@aol.com> To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Sent: Tue, April 17, 2012 2:38:44 PM Subject: Re: GO TO "cobol" I didn't get there 'til '76. They had a CDC 3300 as the main record keeper with somebody's MassStor and several ancillary processors. I didn't notice the unit record equipment just the sound of a drum bouncing around in the bottom of the cage. The programming course was taught on DOS under VM(Lt. Farmer participated in SHARE). In a message dated 4/17/2012 9:27:22 A.M. Central Daylight Time, leful...@sbcglobal.net writes: Army Finance Center there. I think that they used Unisys. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
