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Re: Operating system name

Jon,
Well, from a then novice programmer's view,
I really did cut my teeth on that machine. It
was my first experience outside of a university
environment that had true "real world" implications.
I had previously worked on an IBM 360/65 machine
as a COBOL programmer and to wind up in a
financial institution with a degree in management
on a small system 3 Model 15D was a real
eye opener. I really wondered what I had gotten myself
into. Never really thought/looked back until this thread.

Bill






From: Jon Paris <jon.paris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange-L Midrange-l <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/03/2017 03:41 PM
Subject: Re: Operating system name
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



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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www.SystemiDeveloper.com

On May 3, 2017, at 10:01 AM, broehmer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

Maybe I'm disremembering but wasn't the MFCU
where we really learned about the rpg cycle and look
ahead and matching records? And then if it jammed or
stopped you had to find the missing card that was still at
one of the read stations? And the cards were sequenced
so you had to look at them to be sure you got them
back in the right order? Or was that one of my
late night/early morning nightmares from the 70's.

Bill




From: Jeff Young <jyoung0950@xxxxxxxxx>
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: 05/03/2017 08:44 AM
Subject: Re: Operating system name
Sent by: "MIDRANGE-L" <midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx>



Joe,
And wasn't it loads of fun when you had placed something on the lid of
the
1403 (like hot coffee or a box of cards) and it ran out of paper?

Or how about when the control tape was too worn and it kept forms
feeding
until it was stopped or ran out of paper.

Regarding the MFCU, yes I *did* have another name for it. Especially
when
there was a card jam and one of the cards was mangled.

Lots of fun. NOT :)


Jeff Young
Sr. Programmer Analyst

On Tue, May 2, 2017 at 5:49 PM, Joe Pluta <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

On 5/2/2017 1:52 PM, Jeff Young wrote:

+1 on S/3 CCP Model 15D


My first machine. 3741 diskette keypunch. 1403 band printer.
Removable
disk packs. 5424 MFCU (which may or may not have stood for
"multi-function" depending on the day).

Bursting multi-part printouts and putting them into boxes.

Yeah, I'm old too. :)


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