RE: A Spec?

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I started on a Model 10 that had no disk. Everything was cards. Went to a
15B with 80 column cards, and replaced that with a 96 column card reader.
The 15D with CCP was the cat's meow. I don't know why everybody is so
excited about dynamic partitioning. We had that (sort of) on the 15D.

Paul Nelson
Cell 708-670-6978
Office 708-425-4198
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-----Original Message-----
From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Mark Allen
Sent: Thursday, May 10, 2007 10:14 AM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: A Spec?

Dang and I thought I was old I started on a Sys/3 model 8 (might have
been 10?  it was a LONG time ago).  I thought it was cool when I went
to a 15D with CCP!!!!

On 5/10/07, Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> We had a System/3 Model 6 with no punched cards, and IBM found this hard
to
> believe.  It had an integrated keyboard and the printer doubled as a
> console, and the only input device.  Interactive programming was difficult
> (at best), unless you used KDE (Keyboard Data Entry) which was essentially
> a precursor of DFU.
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> Nope...garden variety RPGII and a VERY small screen.
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> DFU was VERY popular on this machine. Most folks
> were "just" starting to learn how to work with screens
> at this point.
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> The 3741 key to disk was also still around at this point.
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> The S/3 had some screens but the S/34 became the first
> all interactive machine with NO punched cards.
> We thought we had really hit the big time.
>
> Roger Vicker, CCP wrote:
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> > If I remember right there was as System/32 that used a flavor of RPG
> > where the screen specs were in the same source as the code and I think
> > they were listed first. The A may have designated user Access.
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