RE: Old days

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Wes

You have me beat by 1 year.   1963, IBM 1620, 402,403,407 tabulating machines, 
604 calculators.   Then went to the great 1401 with 1,400 core memory.   Then 
in 1965 we upgraded to the 360 model 20 TOS with RPG.

Ah   the good old days

Dave Willenborg
---- Wes Reinhold <WesR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> You're just a kid.  I've been doing this since 1962.  PCAM card
> equipment.  IBM RAMAC 305 (which used vacuum tubes), IBM 1401, etc. etc.
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> "You are not that old.  I decided to learn RPG when I found out that the
> electrict company was buying a systen/3, and it only had RPG.  (Fortran
> and Cobol where added later). I learned it in a 1130."
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> Wow!  Another 1130 vet!   I went from an 1130, to a S/32 (yes, used RPG
> on
> the S/32 - no cards!!  What a CHANGE!), then on up the ladder.
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> Always amazed me that we had COBOL, FORTRAN, and RPG on the 1130, with
> only
> 8K RAM total.   And it takes so much to run ANYTHING today!   Obviously
> Bill Gates and the rest of MS didn't have to play on a card-based
> system....
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> 40 hours to card sort the county by SSN for local taxes.....  Wow, then
> another 24 hours to get it by district.....   And afterwards, the
> sprinkler
> system went off and soaked all the cards......  16 trays......  Type
> 5081's, allllllll soaked.    Dried them in a school's oven, reproduced
> them
> on a 1401's card duplicator so they would go thru the IBM 1442 card
> read/punch on the 1130.....
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> Yep, I'm old....    49, been doing this since 1976.....
>
> Dale Gindlesperger
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