RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running without aprogramstack)

I don't think so. Prior to the 1401 I worked on a IBM RAMAC 305 in the
Air Force which used vacuum tubes. Prior to that, PCAM Equiptment. IF
you don't know what vacuum tubes or PCAM are, then clearly you are not
of my generation. This topic surfaces every now and then. Mention PCAM
and you'd be surprised how many war stories you get.

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Subject: RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running without
aprogramstack)

OK, I guess I have to weigh in on this too and I bet I have you all
beat!

How about an IBM 7080 and 1401 (the latter had no disk drives of course
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just card or tape input). The 1401 probably had 64K or 32K of memory at
most! You modified programs IN STORAGE to make them take different path,

etc. There were NO consoles.

Rebecca Perdue, Systems Programmer
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