Re: How were first 5 positions used in RPG III? -- RPG400-L

Subject: Re: How were first 5 positions used in RPG III?
From: Buck Calabro <kc2hiz@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2017 14:30:15 -0500
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On 1/30/2017 2:22 PM, Vernon Hamberg wrote:

Thanks, yeah, I gave it a try - this was just interesting - my colleague
across the aisle says that was originally a sequence area for punch cards.

Now don't drop the stack of cards, please!!

The page/line number was useful for that rare situation - drop them into
the sorter and they'd be put in order spit-spot. But it was more useful
for making changes; you'd pull the card that needed to be fixed, punch a
new one with the same page/line and... enhanced code, riffle through the
deck and put it in where it belonged, ready to compile again.

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