Re: RDi Birthday Celebration

I've seen the pads, but never used them. I lost my ruler a long time
ago, but the other programmer in our shop still has his. I had to refer
to that a lot when I got started. https://imgur.com/GexL9LY

Kevin Bucknum
Senior Programmer Analyst
MEDDATA/MEDTRON
Tel: 985-893-2550

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From: WDSCI-L [mailto:wdsci-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Roger
Harman
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2017 9:26 PM
To: Rational Developer for IBM i / Websphere Development Studio Client
forSystem i & iSeries
Subject: Re: [WDSCI-L] 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





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


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