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A friend of mine told me that his operator once brought his cat to work one
night. Since the Nancy-1 was warm, it decided (like any self-respecting
cat) to take a nap on top of it. George said that it ran out of paper and
that they had one heck of a time explaining to the CE what the yellow stuff
was on the tape drive (I'll leave it to your imagination).
Jerry C. Adams
IBM i Programmer/Analyst
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From: rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:rpg400-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
On Behalf Of Jeff Young
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 12:59 PM
To: RPG programming on the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: Fw: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when
using RPG Cycle
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 withwrote:
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>it's
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) -
a work of art - all metal, with bakelite knobs. Makes my homeseem
printer
very flimsy.
Rory
On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
it?
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
RPGI 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,
saidprograms did not tell the printer to skip to line NNN, the program
carriageto skip to channel NNN. That channel number was punched on the
propercontrol tape which was then mounted on the printer along with the
--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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