RE: Old days

["Wes Reinhold" <WesR@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That was a part time job I had for a while.  Don't laugh, the way things
are going, punched cards may make a comeback and I'll be ready.

-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jerry Adams
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 5:03 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Old days

Damn, all I've got is the disk from an F1 disk crash on the S/3 Mod 8.  
Actually the second one.  I told the CE he ought to calibrate that 
puppy, but Nooo, he knew what he was doing and I'm just a software guy.

Twenty-four hours later he replaced it again - and calibrated it.


Say, weren't you the guy standing next to Art Linkletter when they ran 
the 80 column card sorter that matched couples, Wes?  Gee, I don't feel 
nearly as old as I did when I got up this morning.  Thanks!


        * Jerry C. Adams
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Wes Reinhold wrote:
> I still have a card gauge and a sorter needle.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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.
>   
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > DaleGindlesperger@xxxxxxxxxxx
> > Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 2:29 PM
> > To: midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Old days
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > "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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>