The 7080 had a fairly large array of lights. At EOJ, there was always a
single successful completion written to the console, or a few messages
describing the error if unsuccessful. Following a good completion, we
sometimes tried to write routines that would end with a word spelled out
in the lights. A popular word was "TILT". "OOPS" was also popular, but
a bit trickier to create. We didn't mess with the machine status if
there was a problem - we didn't want to destroy anything that might be
pertinent to the debugging effort. After all, we would have been
shooting at our own toes.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Macioce, Larry
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:33 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Immediate instructions (was "nonames")
This is my 35th year. I wrote code (for my 6 month cert) on a
360/20 and my first job was operating a Honeywell 7000 (I think that was
the series but I'm sure it was a honeywell ).
It had 3 sets of 3 lights that when all lit up(777) was good
eoj. Anything else you had to look up the error code , fix the job and
rerun.
mace
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From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward M. Martin
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 2:15 PM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Immediate instructions (was "nonames")
I am a youngster. 24 years ago NYC Noble Loans with the likes
of Frank Hughes, Phil Smith, and Bob Bell.
Ed Martin
330-588-4723
ext 40441
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Scott Rohling
Sent: Monday, August 04, 2008 11:58 AM
To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU
Subject: Re: Immediate instructions (was "nonames")
Dude - you're old! :-)
I'm into my 30th year using VM so I'm not too far behind you,
gramps.
With fond respect - Scott
On Mon, Aug 4, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Schuh, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
I started learning assembler (it was called Autocoder on the
7080, it
was the only language available to us) in a class taught at
Boeing by an
IBM SE. Its first week covered the POP. That was in January,
1964.
Regards,
Richard Schuh
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