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With all this talk of punch cards ... yes I started learning programming
using punch cards.
We were allowed 3 attempts to submit our card stack that would compile an
RPG or COBOL program and then run. There was a stack of data cards
following the program cards all controlled by job control cards.
BUT who remembers the IBM RPG Coding sheets ??
The facility where I was learning RPG used to purchase these from IBM,
actually i was one of the lads that got to go to IBM to collect them.
(There is a funny story about IBM door security - will leave that to
another time :-) )
They were in tear off pads of about 40 or 50 sheets and different pads for
each specification type (H,F,L,E,S,T,I,U,O)
Used to write these up in pencil before getting time on the card punch.
Enjoy your day!!
Don Brown
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