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  3. April 2013

Re: why rpg and not cobol

I also cut my teeth on the IBM 5100 (with the little built-in 3 inch CRT) back in 1978.

The 25 level limit makes sense, because when I wrote a program in BASIC to do a 3 dimension analysis of arrays for my wife's statistics course,
and let it run over the weekend,
and the machine went into a loop.

- John Voris

message: 6
date: Tue, 16 Apr 2013 07:09:50 -0500
from: Bruce Vining
subject: Re: why rpg and not cobol

The "luggable" indeed. When I first started with IBM I used to lug one home
pretty much every evening while writing a BASIC program to play chess on
the 5100. Found out the hard way that the BASIC subroutine stack had a
limit of 25 levels...

IIRC the 5100 was the first 'luggable', it initially ran basic.


. . . Vern - did you ever work on the IBM 5100 portable computer? Had an APL
option. Sold one once to company that designed BIG power poles.
Probably
in 1976.

Jim



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