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

["Michael Ryan" <michaelrtr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Old IBM stuff is cool, but who has written RPG on other than IBM
platforms? I've written it on PCs, Wang VS, Dec VAX, TI DS-990,
Southwest Technical, and Burroughs.

On Feb 7, 2008 1:29 PM, Wes Reinhold <WesR@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>
> 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
> -
> 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.
>
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