RE: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobsrunning withoutaprogramstack)

["Paul Nelson" <nelsonp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wrote some of the first lines of code back in 1974. I had been running a
dozer in the good weather and driving a truck in the bad. Redneck asked me
if I wanted to learn how to be a programmer in the fall of 74. I had been
shot at during the teamster's strike (please don't tell Hot Rod Harriet),
and I with a wife and kid, I was through trucking.

He sent me to IBM's RPG school for 6 weeks, and the rest I've picked up
along the way. We bought time on a S/3 from a manufacturing company in north
Mpls. I would fill out coding sheets during the day and do the
keypunch/compile routine in the evenings when they were closed for business.

Paul Nelson
Office 512-392-2577
Cell 708-670-6978
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I didn't realize Elke has been aroung that long.

I used to work for them, right before, and after, SSA bought them and 
integrated Maintenance Management into BPCS.



Thanx,

Nick



Nick Radich
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Phillips had (briefly) a competitor to the S/32. I migrated the S/32 
version
of the Elke maintenance management system to it. That was certainly a 
waste
of my time. I'm not sure Phillips ever sold any of those.

Paul Nelson
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Michael Ryan
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:31 PM
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Subject: Re: Memories of Old IBM Equipment (Was: Jobs running
withoutaprogramstack)

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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> 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
> -
> 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
> City of Roanoke Department of Technology
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