RE: Old days

["Wes Reinhold" <WesR@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I still have a card gauge and a sorter needle.

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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Lundy
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 3:12 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Old days

Got you beat by a year.
Started on punch cards. 514 reproducing card punch, 082 sorter, 302 
tabulator, 407 tabulator, etc.
Then went to IBM 7070, then to 305 RAMAC.

Still have plug board with wiring tool at home.

Jim



Wes Reinhold 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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> DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:29 PM
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> Subject: Re: Old days
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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."
>
> 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.
>
> 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....
>
> 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.....
>
> Yep, I'm old....    49, been doing this since 1976.....
>
> Dale Gindlesperger
> IT Manager/Special Projects Leader
> Fleetwood Folding Trailers, Inc.
> 258 Beacon Street
> Somerset, PA  15501
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