RE: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when

My recollection of this particular sort program deck was that it was machine
code, not source code, and there was no sequence number punched into the
deck. All 80 columns were hex values. So, only supervisors were allowed to
take this thing out and use it. I remember some sequence of keys that could
be pressed on the 360 front panel that caused the cards in the reader to be
read and blanks cards in the punch side of the unit (it was as big as a
desk) to be punched so you'd get a duplicate set of the sort program cards.

There was a time I could read an 80 column card by just looking at the
holes. I didn't need to put the card(s) through an 'interpreter' (which was
another box that read the 80 column cards and printed the column contents at
the very top edge of the card. Wonder how that brain space formerly used
for that 'skill' is being used now?

What a greybeard, huh?

No, I do not look like Gandalf.

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Yes,
The 029 what the 80 col card punch.
What a trip down memory lane. :)

On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:51 PM, Booth Martin <booth@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

That is why the first 5 columns are for the line number, and why the
line numbers increment by 10. A dropped deck could be run through the
sorter. New lines of code be added by punching a line number in
between the 10s so that a whole new deck didn't have to be key punched.

Was that key punch machine a 029? That seems familiar.




On 1/24/2013 3:37 PM, Thomas Garvey wrote:

I go back before that. How about an IBM 360 mod 30? 80 column card
reader/punch. If a file needed to be sorted, we had to load a deck
of

cards

(which were the sort program) that was about a foot thick. Somebody

drooped

it once and all hell broke loose.

I started out as the 084 card sorter operator, working grave yard shift.

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