Re: FUNLIB? -- MIDRANGE-L

Bob ( Schuette ) was at a fairly recent conference, certainly in the last 5 years. I have a phone number for him but no idea if it's current. I'm pretty sure he's still in Iowa but whether he still has FUNLIB etc is, questionable.

Back in the late 80's we used Bob's RPG II 1/2 extensively, which curiously was written in RPG II 1/2! I believe I can claim the only copy that ever ran on AS/400 as my boss and I converted it to run there for his cool macro support. I was very impressed with Bob's skills and that pre-compiler. I was honored to be the guy who taught him and then COMMON President Gene Gelman (sp?) the basics of the AS/400.

I remember Bob telling about the days developing the assembler routines needed to support CALL and PARM on the S/36. They would constantly 'Proc Check' the thing and needed to hit the IPL button frequently. They tired of walking to the computer room to do that so they rigged a mannequin thumb to an RC Servo and would activate it remotely with the RC controller. (Now you know why I like the guy!)

- Larry 'DrFranken' Bolhuis

On 5/9/2011 9:18 AM, Jerry C. Adams wrote:

At one time Bob Schutte (sic?) was the librarian for the S/34/36 project.
Haven't seen Bob at a Conference in years. Last I heard from him he lived
in Iowa. In fact, introduction to the Library function was one of the
things that got me to investigate (and attend) COMMON.

Jerry C. Adams
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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dan Kimmel
Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 6:15 PM
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Subject: RE: FUNLIB?

That dates back to the time when COMMON had a "Librarian" volunteer
position. I remember the volunteer, but I don't remember the name. Was is
Chuck Balsly? All of this predates internet, one of us would have to go back
to our printed proceedings or full conference agenda books.

There was a Chuck Balsly memorial scholarship long before there was a Al
Barsa memorial scholarship. Both were great people and great volunteers.

The tapes probably passed with the volunteers.

-----Original Message-----
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Sent: Friday, May 06, 2011 5:52 PM
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Subject: RE: FUNLIB?

Well, there USED to be distributed library called COMMON and one from LISUG.
They were subsets of each other to some extent with some variations, etc....

I think COMMON got out of the library distribution business years ago (keep
me honest here Pete) and I doubt that LISUG keeps thiers up or distributes
it any more with Al's passing...

If I remember correctly, there was one program written and compiled at
S/38 OS release -0- (That's ZERO folks!). Just having that object on
our
S/38 (not even running it) caused problems!

Paul E Musselman
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