Re: Green screen to GUI

[Keith Carpenter <carpcon@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Peter,

I never worked on a 14xx (I'm not that old), but heard a lot about it
from an old IBMer who sold them.  From what I can tell RPG (disk and
card/tape versions) was available later in it's product life (the system
is older than RPG).

Some manuals for the 1401, System/3 and System/32 have been scanned and
are available online as PDFs (very larger as they are images not OCR'd).
http://www.bitsavers.org
If I had kept my old S/38 manuals, I would donate them to the archive.

Jay (who may still be on this list) has page on old RPG.  MVT refers to
one of the many OS's that ran on the S/360.
http://www.jaymoseley.com/hercules/rpgtutor/rpgtutor.htm


Keith


Peter Dow (ML) wrote:
> Hi Keith,
> 
> When I first learned programming on a 1401 (1969) there was no RPG, just
> AutoCoder.  It was the System/3 where I first played with it.
> 
> And SIMH (http://simh.trailing-edge.com/) also has emulators for a bunch of
> machines including the 1401:
> 
> "SIMH implements simulators for:
> 
>  Data General Nova, Eclipse
>  Digital Equipment Corporation PDP-1, PDP-4, PDP-7, PDP-8, PDP-9, PDP-10,
> PDP- 11, PDP-15, VAX
>  GRI Corporation GRI-909
>  IBM 1401, 1620, 1130, System 3
>  Interdata (Perkin-Elmer) 16b and 32b systems
>  Hewlett-Packard 2116, 2100, 21MX
>  Honeywell H316/H516
>  MITS Altair 8800, with both 8080 and Z80
>  Royal-Mcbee LGP-30, LGP-21
>  Scientific Data Systems SDS 940"
> 
> Peter Dow
> Dow Software Services, Inc.
> www.dowsoftware.com
> 909 793-9050 voice
> 909 793-4480 fax
> 
> 
>>-----Original Message-----
>>On Behalf Of Keith Carpenter
> 
> 
>>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.
> 
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