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

["Willie J. Moore" <WJMoore@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Whats wrong with Cobol? RPGLE is just catching up with it.  What about AUTOCODER and FORTRAN?
Willie...

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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Pat Barber
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To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running without
aprogramstack)


I don't know about that Rebecca...

There are some pretty old guys on this list that wrote most
of the orignal code for the Social Security Administration,
using chisels and stone tablets writing in the ancient language
of Cobol.

Rebecca.Perdue@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

> 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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