RE: A Spec?

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I hope that you meant 96 column cards.

Al

Al Barsa, Jr.
Barsa Consulting Group, LLC

400>390

"i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
e gads

Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!

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Yeah, my first was a Sys/3 mod 10 CARD system. Those 90 column cards
were WAY cool!!

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Allen
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:14 AM
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Subject: Re: A Spec?

Dang and I thought I was old I started on a Sys/3 model 8 (might have
been 10?  it was a LONG time ago).  I thought it was cool when I went to
a 15D with CCP!!!!

On 5/10/07, Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We had a System/3 Model 6 with no punched cards, and IBM found this
> hard to believe.  It had an integrated keyboard and the printer
> doubled as a console, and the only input device.  Interactive
> programming was difficult (at best), unless you used KDE (Keyboard
> Data Entry) which was essentially a precursor of DFU.
>
> Al
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> Al Barsa, Jr.
> Barsa Consulting Group, LLC
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> 400>390
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> "i" comes before "p", "x" and "z"
> e gads
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> Our system's had more names than Elizabeth Taylor!
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> 914-251-1234
> 914-251-9406 fax
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> http://www.barsaconsulting.com
> http://www.taatool.com
> http://www.as400connection.com
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> Nope...garden variety RPGII and a VERY small screen.
>
> DFU was VERY popular on this machine. Most folks were "just" starting
> to learn how to work with screens at this point.
>
> The 3741 key to disk was also still around at this point.
>
> The S/3 had some screens but the S/34 became the first all interactive

> machine with NO punched cards.
> We thought we had really hit the big time.
>
> Roger Vicker, CCP wrote:
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> > If I remember right there was as System/32 that used a flavor of RPG

> > where the screen specs were in the same source as the code and I
> > think they were listed first. The A may have designated user Access.
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