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That was a part time job I had for a while. Don't laugh, the way things
are going, punched cards may make a comeback and I'll be ready.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Old days

Damn, all I've got is the disk from an F1 disk crash on the S/3 Mod 8.
Actually the second one. I told the CE he ought to calibrate that
puppy, but Nooo, he knew what he was doing and I'm just a software guy.

Twenty-four hours later he replaced it again - and calibrated it.


Say, weren't you the guy standing next to Art Linkletter when they ran
the 80 column card sorter that matched couples, Wes? Gee, I don't feel
nearly as old as I did when I got up this morning. Thanks!


* Jerry C. Adams
*IBM System i5/iSeries Programmer/Analyst
B&W Wholesale Distributors, Inc.* *
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Wes Reinhold wrote:
I still have a card gauge and a sorter needle.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lundy
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Old days

Got you beat by a year.
Started on punch cards. 514 reproducing card punch, 082 sorter, 302
tabulator, 407 tabulator, etc.
Then went to IBM 7070, then to 305 RAMAC.

Still have plug board with wiring tool at home.

Jim



Wes Reinhold wrote:

You're just a kid. I've been doing this since 1962. PCAM card
equipment. IBM RAMAC 305 (which used vacuum tubes), IBM 1401, etc.

etc.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:29 PM
To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Old days






"You are not that old. I decided to learn RPG when I found out that

the

electrict company was buying a systen/3, and it only had RPG.

(Fortran

and Cobol where added later). I learned it in a 1130."

Wow! Another 1130 vet! I went from an 1130, to a S/32 (yes, used

RPG

on
the S/32 - no cards!! What a CHANGE!), then on up the ladder.

Always amazed me that we had COBOL, FORTRAN, and RPG on the 1130,
with
only
8K RAM total. And it takes so much to run ANYTHING today!

Obviously

Bill Gates and the rest of MS didn't have to play on a card-based
system....

40 hours to card sort the county by SSN for local taxes..... Wow,

then

another 24 hours to get it by district..... And afterwards, the
sprinkler
system went off and soaked all the cards...... 16 trays...... Type
5081's, allllllll soaked. Dried them in a school's oven,
reproduced
them
on a 1401's card duplicator so they would go thru the IBM 1442 card
read/punch on the 1130.....

Yep, I'm old.... 49, been doing this since 1976.....

Dale Gindlesperger
IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
258 Beacon Street
Somerset, PA 15501








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