Here we go again <g>....... I remember using Hollerith punched card machines. They were little things where you had to punch the zone (10, 11, 12?) and the numeric # to create coded alpha and numerics on the cards. No IBM 026 or 029 card punches in those days. If we made a mistake on the Hollerith, we would put a "chad" back in the incorrectly punched hole and smooth it in with a fingernail. Those worked OK until they replaced the brush card reader on the computer itself with optical readers. Then it was hit and miss with the chads.
Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Summerfield Sent: Friday, August 22, 2008 8:39 AM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version Mark Perry wrote: > Evans, Kevin R wrote: >> This is getting like Monty Python <g>. >> >> One guy says "When we were young, we used to eat the leather from our >> shoes". The other guy says "You had shoes?". >> > OS/360 - some of you guys make me feel young, thanks ;-) > > You must be around 60, either that or your systems were old at the time ;-) > > I started on 370s (135,138,145,148,158,168 - 3033, 4341, 3081, 3084 etc.) This didn't seem the time to mention what I used before I was promoted (public service) to an IBM shop. Operating systems there were SCOPE, MSOS and MASTER. > > We wrote our assembler on punched cards and were happy to do so, And you > try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you. I found coding sheets easier, then someone else could punch holes in cards. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
