RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobsrunning withoutaprogramstack)

I wrote some of the first lines of code back in 1974. I had been running a
dozer in the good weather and driving a truck in the bad. Redneck asked me
if I wanted to learn how to be a programmer in the fall of 74. I had been
shot at during the teamster's strike (please don't tell Hot Rod Harriet),
and I with a wife and kid, I was through trucking.

He sent me to IBM's RPG school for 6 weeks, and the rest I've picked up
along the way. We bought time on a S/3 from a manufacturing company in north
Mpls. I would fill out coding sheets during the day and do the
keypunch/compile routine in the evenings when they were closed for business.

Paul Nelson
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I didn't realize Elke has been aroung that long.

I used to work for them, right before, and after, SSA bought them and
integrated Maintenance Management into BPCS.



Thanx,

Nick



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Phillips had (briefly) a competitor to the S/32. I migrated the S/32
version
of the Elke maintenance management system to it. That was certainly a
waste
of my time. I'm not sure Phillips ever sold any of those.

Paul Nelson
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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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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
215 W. Church Avenue, 4th Floor North
Roanoke, VA 24011
540/853-2942
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