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My first job in TAB / DP / MIS / IS / IT was a keypunch operator on a 3742 key to diskette machine. (3741 had one station, 3742 had two, each person facing each other). A BIG 34 shop. Twin 34's one running MAPICS and the other running home grown stuff. Ah MAPICS . Relative Number processing. I even went thru 40 hours of Oliver Whites videos on MRP, CCP, Production planning, etc. Then I got promoted to being THE system operator on both 34's. From that Job I went to work for a sevice bureau running a 370. The BIG IRON. As a ( believe me) RPG programmer(Ya on a 370 to handle a sys/3 converted system) First day on the job the operator tells me my program had an array index error. I said, "Well give it a 1 to reset it and keep running" He said, John You don't understand this is a 370. You got a 200 page unformatted core dump. Figure it out. I said, "Let me see the console message". He leans over and starts showing me a green bar report. I said where's the console? he said right here. I said that's not a console, that's a typewriter connected to a computer. Ah, unformated core dumps, 80 column cards, JCL, those were the days. So began my introduction to the "Big Iron" Many more funny stories about remove-able disk packs, tapes with data checks , And one I still have nightmares about, "The significance of a 7 day backup tape rotation, and on the 8th day finding what 4040404040.... means in the last 256 bytes of a 512 byte customer sales history file." John Carr From: nina jones@ddi on 01/08/2000 07:49 PM To: MIDRANGE-L@MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com@SMTP@EXCHCONNECT cc: Subject: Re: System 34 > GREAT memory !!! :-) > > We also had a data entry "machine" (forget the name/model now - I was a kid then > <BG>) and they Accounting would enter stuff to a diskette and then I'd pop it into > the S/34 for processing... High tech :-) 3741. nj +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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