Re: Operating system name -- MIDRANGE-L

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Booth,

Examples are: IBM 402,403,407 machines.
Worked them all. Wired them all.

Bill

From: Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/03/2017 03:57 PM
Subject: Re: Operating system name
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

I think of tabulators as being completely mechanical. For instance,
Monroe had a tabulator that used replaceable tab-stop bars, one for each
different form a company used.

After those, but before computers, were punch-card tab machines that had
plug-wire boards. These reprogram-able boards had series of holes,
much like a telephone switchboard. One created different output by
wiring different patterns, one board per form.

On 5/3/2017 3:41 PM, Jon Paris wrote:

It goes back decades before that Bill - as I noted earlier all of this

dates back to tabulators. RPG in its initial form was just a means to
replace the functionality of tabulators with them new fangled computers.

Jon Paris

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