Re: A Spec?

["Mark Allen" <scprideandms@xxxxxxxxx>]

Pauls a Geezer like me, wasn't the "pseudo-interactive" partion 64K????

On 5/10/07, Paul Nelson <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I started on a Model 10 that had no disk. Everything was cards. Went to a
> 15B with 80 column cards, and replaced that with a 96 column card reader.
> The 15D with CCP was the cat's meow. I don't know why everybody is so
> excited about dynamic partitioning. We had that (sort of) on the 15D.
>
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> 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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> > 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:
> >
> > > 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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