Re: Fw: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form whenusing RPG Cycle -- RPG400-L

Oh no you are not the only one ....

And I also remember how to restore the VTOC on a disk on System/3 model 10

1. You opened the back of the disk unit and had one person there
2. You had another in the front of the machine with his finger on the IPL
button
3. You started a disk copy from the backup
4. The one in the back counted the step motor's steps and shouted NOW!
5. The one in the front HIT the IPL button

But I have forgotten how many steps was required to to only copy the VTOC

This was times, you could prevent the 1403 to open by squizing a bend punch
card into the switch that caused the opening to malfunction and you could
repair
a MFCU or a 1442 by cleaning switches with the same punchcard an thereby
clean
the switches - and IBM technisions used Loctite glue to repair the console
- PTF's
was something that was implementing a psysical wire/connection on a board
from
R2 to D2

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 8:05 PM, Thomas Garvey <tgarvey@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I thought I was the only geezer out here who still remembered those things.
I remember having to make those tapes for the printers. For custom forms
mostly.

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For most S/3 applications, we did not use special carriage control tapes,
just the standard one with Channel 1 and other defaults punched in.
However, they tended to stretch the holes periodically, and that caused the
printer to continue page eject until it ran out of paper.
Oh boy, what fun!! Especially if you left something on the top cover and
then it automatically raised up when it ran out of paper. :)

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 1:45 PM, <KBushard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I had a 1403 attached to my S3/15D but I don't recall having to mess with
any carriage control tape. Were they upgraded at some point? This was
in 1976.

As I recall it was "Cadillac" at the time.

Karleen Bushard || IBM i Software Devloper || HOM Furniture, Inc
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rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote on 01/24/2013 12:39:10 PM:

From: Rory Hewitt <rory.hewitt@xxxxxxxxx>
To: "RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)" <rpg400-
l@xxxxxxxxxxxx>,
Date: 01/24/2013 12:39 PM
Subject: Re: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form
when using RPG Cycle Sent by: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx

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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