John, My career is similar , unit record equip then 360/40 DOS/VS/POWER, the 360/40 had MFCM and I learned Assembler on a 360/20, of course I wasn't in your wonderful country, I always liked Canada.
Scott On Fri, Mar 10, 2017 at 7:23 AM John Abell < john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com> wrote: > I started at IBM in Toronto in August 1964. 1401's, a 1440, a 1460, a > 7044, an 1130 and all the unit record equipment you could want except 403s > and 407s, We also had Tape-to-Tape data flow over a phone line in the > evenings between Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver and Toronto using > 200BPI horizontal vacuum column tape drives. Soon thereafter, we had a > 360/20 with an MFCM. I will leave the multiple interpretations of MFCM to > those from that era. > > > > Anyone else out there remember learning and using Autocoder and FARGO? I > will forego panel wiring for the time being as this was an interesting > programming method learned first. > > > > Cheers, > > John T. 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We only send and receive > emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, > interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Mike Myers > > Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 8:08 PM > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". > > > > Warren: > > > > My God, you've been around even longer than me. I only joined IBM on Nov. > 9, 1964 and started programming school the day before OS/360 went GA. How > many other old f***s (friends) have we out here on this forum? > > > > Mike Myers > > Mentor Services Corporation > > (919) 341-5210 > > > > On 03/09/2017 07:39 PM, Warren Brown wrote: > > > I thought it was me . .joined IBM the same day as the 360 was > > > announced > > > -------------------------------------------- > > > On Thu, 3/9/17, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <l...@garlic.com> wrote: > > > > > > Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". > > > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > > > Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017, 7:26 PM > > > > > > john.archie.mck...@gmail.com > > > (John McKown) writes: > > > > ​Same in other > > > books I've seen. Why? Probably because we write from top > > > to > > > > bottom. We write the lowest first, > > > at the top, and the highest last, at the > > > > bottom. And then we confuse everybody by > > > calling them "ascending" memory > > > > addresses while writing them in a > > > descending pattern. English is a _stupid_ > > > > language. > > > > > > in the 70s as fullscreen 3270s editors were > > > starting to appear, there > > > was big editor > > > culture wars over up & down. > > > > > > prior to that, line-editing was from > > > perspective of the user ... "up" > > > moving towards the "top" (beginning) > > > of the file and "down" was moving > > > towards the "bottom" (end) of the > > > file. > > > > > > The side that had > > > enhanced previous line editors to support 3270 > > > fullscreen and preserved the up/down > > > orientation (meaning). > > > > > > A > > > couple of "new" 3270 fullscreen editors, done from > > > scratch, insisted > > > on "up" was from > > > the orientation of the program (not the user), the > > > program would move the file up ... towards the > > > bottom of the file or > > > move the file > > > "down" ... towards the top of the file (difference > > > was` > > > whether up/down was from the human > > > perspective or the program/software > > > perspective). > > > > > > -- > > > virtualization experience > > > starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive > > > access instructions, > > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu > > > with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > --- > > This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. > > https://www.avast.com/antivirus > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
