Nostalgia

[zscoundrel]

I can beat that.

My first computer job didn't even have a crt tube connected to the 
system!!!  It was an IBM s/360 model 30 with a whopping 24k memory 
expansion module the size of an large side-by-side fridge!  The system 
console/log was an IBM selectric with a pin feed roller platen.

The next 4 companies I worked for removed their card punch/readers while 
I worked for 'em.

numa at thenuma.com wrote:
> That's what I learned Assembler on as well.  Love that 390.
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> Kris
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>>Quoting Robert Kennedy <erwin_k_r at yahoo.com>:
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>>>Just to put a little perspective on this. When I took
>>>computer programming classes at UMKC in 1982 & 1983
>>>they were just getting rid of the last few key punch
>>>stations.
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>>I did Cobol, Assembler and RPGII at Penn Vally in '91 or '92, and the
>>RPG stuff  was all on cards, but the Assembler was on terminals.  I
>>don't think they had  any outside access back then.  Since RPG is
>>basically just a card sorting  program, virtualising the old patch
>>boards for the sorters, it makes a lot of  sense on cards.  System390
>>Assmebler really rocks!  It's one of the reasons I  never had the
>>patience to learn programming on the PC.
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