I lost my last 5081 in 1980 - at the same time someone took my -0 360 reference card, yellow instead of green, from my desk. Both probably were lost to the same person. We were not issued desk keys, so I couldn't have kept them in a locked drawer. I probably should have invested in a strong box.
My first job in the industry was programming a 7080, using Autocoder. Big machine - BCD character set, 160K characters of memory, 16 registers, 28 tape drives, console keyboard, card reader and printer, no disks. There were 10 1401s in a downstairs room. Their job was to create tapes from card decks to feed the 7080 and take 7080 output tapes and either print reports or punch the data. Regards, Richard Schuh -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stracka, James (GTI) Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 1:04 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: 5081 My first job working in this industry was sorting and collating 101,000 5081s for year end processing. After sorting and collating the December then 4th quarter cards. I still have the ringing of that collator in my ears when I think of that. Around 1994 I worked at an IBM office that was formerly one of the plants where they were made in Dayton, New Jersey. -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jim Bohnsack Sent: Friday, June 09, 2006 3:55 PM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: DDR to standard labeled tapes You must be a kid if you don't know what 5081 cards are or am I the only one on the list who does? Jim -------------------------------------------------------- If you are not an intended recipient of this e-mail, please notify the sender, delete it and do not read, act upon, print, disclose, copy, retain or redistribute it. Click here for important additional terms relating to this e-mail. http://www.ml.com/email_terms/ --------------------------------------------------------
