Re: Fw: Reminiscing was: Indicating Total Time in Free Form when using RPG Cycle

ROTFLMAO


On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 4:07 PM, Jerry C. Adams <midrange@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

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
History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it. -Winston

Churchill

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-----Original Message-----
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 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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