Re: Decided to hang it up

I haven't been following this thread as closely as I might have, but I
don't think the original poster has chimed in about reasons for this
pushback.

Though I am loathe to support such pushback, I have seen situations
where it may seem to make sense. In particular, a programming farm on
the Asian continent does all the programming work for a particular set
of pharmaceutical companies. These people know RPG/400 to some extent,
and ILE not at all. The company has a position that introoduction of
ILE to that source set introduces a wealth of support issues.
Instantly, the set of individuals who can support a particular change
is reduced until training occurs - and this particular organization has
no desire to retrain. They are able to retain their staff and keep
things interesting by double-teaming their responsibilities. While
Roji may be on the PHP and RPG team, Koko may be on the Java and RPPG
team.

"Bob P. Roche" <BRoche@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I never had to program on punch cards. But i remember an older sister
taking classes programming on punch cards at the local community
college.
Spray painted punch card wreaths every Christmas.



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Date:
04/14/2011 07:28 PM
Subject:
Re: Decided to hang it up
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Here is a picture of one. This happens to be a JCL card:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/File:Punch-card-5081.jpg

John McKee

-----Original message-----
From: Mike Wills mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Date: Thu, 14 Apr 2011 18:30:37 -0500
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: Decided to hang it up

That's what I thought you were talking about.

Seriously though, I have never seen one or the cards that got

punched.

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Mike Wills
http://mikewills.me

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On Apr 14, 2011, at 5:21 PM, "Musselman, Paul"
<pmusselman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I can hear the younger crowd asking, "What's a card reader? Some

sort
of credit card thing?"

Paul E Musselman

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