Re: why rpg and not cobol

I believe the most accurate description would be I played on it. I was a
Systems Engineer for IBM out of St. Louis working primarily on S/38 and
somehow the thought of "lugging" home a 38 and a few 3370s didn't appeal to
either me or my wife :)

Bruce


On Tue, Apr 16, 2013 at 11:27 AM, Horn, Jim <jim.horn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Bruce

Did you sell it or work on it? Where? I sold it the first year it was
out. Out of Minneapolis.

You could leave it in your car overnight at 20 below, bring it in, plug it
in and it would work. Tape wouldn't read because there was frost on the
read/write heads.

Jim

message: 6
date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:09:50 -0500
from: Bruce Vining <bvining@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol

The "luggable" indeed. When I first started with IBM I used to lug one home
pretty much every evening while writing a BASIC program to play chess on
the 5100. Found out the hard way that the BASIC subroutine stack had a
limit of 25 levels...

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