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On 5/28/21 10:40 AM, Peter Dow wrote:
Not quite, but I had a boss (Hoffman Motors) who "programmed" EAMs
(Electronic Accounting Machines?) by wiring boards with jumper cables
(not the kind you use to jump start a car).
The whole reason why various permutations of RPG have been the lingua
franca of IBM Midrange systems since the S-3 is that the syntax of RPG
was designed to be instantly understandable to anybody experienced with
the plugboard-programmable unit record machines that IBM Midrange
systems were originally intended to replace.
I will also note that prior to the advent of von Neumann architecture,
essentially all computers were plugboard-programmable.
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JHHL
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