RE: Green screen to GUI

Me, too.  Learned programming of COBOL, RPG and FORTRAN on a 1401. Loaded
tapes and changed disk drives on a 370 at Ralston Purina in ST Louis.

Gregory A. Garner
Garner Data Systems, Inc
4270 Grand Teton Parkway
Suwanee, GA 30024
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Subject: Re: Green screen to GUI

my 1st was a S/3 model 12!!!  Then the 15D and the wonderful world of
CCP

>>> mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 9/23/2005 1:23:36 PM >>>
I didn't think anybody was still alive that remembered the
1401.

My first "real" job was on a 360/30 running BG,F1,F2.

Keith Carpenter wrote:
> Don't forget the 1401.
> The first system to popularize RPG.
> 
> There's a working System/3 simulator (google SIMH) for the PC which
> includes the RPG & Cobol compilers.  Unfortuately no CCP.
> 
> 1401 emulation was included with the 360/370.  You could run
hercules
> (360/370/390 hardware emulator) and have the 360 RPG compiler as
well.
> 
> 
> Keith
> 
> 
> 
> Pat Barber wrote:
> 
>>You didn't go quite far enough back in the old
>>"way back" machine.
>>
>>The legacy machine for all that we currently work on started
>>out waaaay back in 1971 on the System/3. This was the beginning
>>of what we all call the "midrange" systems.
>>
>>With very little or no changes, many of the programs written for
>>the System/3 could be run on the current box.