Re: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle -- RPG400-L

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Buck,

It's worth checking out the photo of the 1404 printer on that Wikipedia
page (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_1403_Printer_opened.jpg) - it's
a work of art - all metal, with bakelite knobs. Makes my home printer seem
very flimsy.

Rory

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On 1/24/2013 11:36 AM, nancy wrote:

A spool fine do a line feed to a channel that did not have a hold in it?
I was once a mainframe operator, but I really do not know what that
means.

They're talking about a printer carriage control tape.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carriage_control_tape Many years ago, RPG
programs did not tell the printer to skip to line NNN, the program said
to skip to channel NNN. That channel number was punched on the carriage
control tape which was then mounted on the printer along with the proper
paper. You'd make one control tape for say payroll checks and another
for say, 8-12 x 11 inch paper.

This has not been used for 30 years, so it's not surprising that you
don't know what it refers to.
--buck

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