Re: RDi Birthday Celebration

I have a few pads of those but not the full set. Also a report/screen layout pad.

The back of them is great for sketching things in my work shop.

Roger Harman
COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power





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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Don Brown
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 1:45 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client for System i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] RDi Birthday Celebration

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