RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running withoutaprogramstack)

Don't forget Sperry Univac.

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 1:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running
withoutaprogramstack)

Old IBM stuff is cool, but who has written RPG on other than IBM
platforms? I've written it on PCs, Wang VS, Dec VAX, TI DS-990,
Southwest Technical, and Burroughs.

On Feb 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Wes Reinhold <WesR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I don't think so. Prior to the 1401 I worked on a IBM RAMAC 305 in

the

Air Force which used vacuum tubes. Prior to that, PCAM Equiptment.

IF

you don't know what vacuum tubes or PCAM are, then clearly you are not
of my generation. This topic surfaces every now and then. Mention

PCAM

and you'd be surprised how many war stories you get.

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Subject: RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running without
aprogramstack)


OK, I guess I have to weigh in on this too and I bet I have you all
beat!

How about an IBM 7080 and 1401 (the latter had no disk drives of

course

-
just card or tape input). The 1401 probably had 64K or 32K of memory

at

most! You modified programs IN STORAGE to make them take different

path,

etc. There were NO consoles.

Rebecca Perdue, Systems Programmer
City of Roanoke Department of Technology
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