Evans, Kevin R wrote:
Mine was 360/50 and a 360/30. When the 30 was replaced with a 2nd 50, we ran the 30 for about a month outside of the computer room (with no "air conditioning" other than opening the windows) with IBMs blessing. 2311 and 2314 disk drives with a paper tape reader that had a "flippable"
I worked for Amdahl for a while in the late 80s. One of our clients STILL used paper tape. Equipment in the field recorded data to paper tape, and the rolls were read by the computer system running MVS/XA.
table so that the paper tapes we got in from construction sites could be read either started at the outside or the inside of the PT spool. 2540 card reader/puches and 1403 printers. Ah, the "good ole days".....<g>. Kevin -----Original Message----- From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Stahr, Lea Sent: Thursday, August 21, 2008 1:11 PM To: LINUX-390@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: Distribution ages, was: Linux version MFT, MVT, then VS1.I was DOS/VS. Installed CICS 1.0 macro level to replace BTAM stuff like 40407F7F2D....OLDER THAN THE HILLS. My new 360/30 had a DISK drive (no more TOS). DFHPCT, DFHPPT, DFHFCT, DFHTCT etc in CICS.
We had a very buggy BTAM application written to APS[1] (Australian Public Service) standards. I don't think anyone else followed them, and it was wholly incompatible with TCAM (no VTAM yet), though I think I could write a bridge now. I got it working well enough to determine that the network (we had remote terminals) was never going to support enquiry traffic, it was way too slow. Later, we revisited the application and I chose to write using EXCP because: 1. BTAM didn't offer a lot. 2. Our real terminals emulated ASCII 3270s. 3. Our test terminals were real EBCDIC 3270s. 4. Supporting both code sets was easy using EXCP, not so using BTAM. It was very educational. [1] This was my introduction to communications. I was a raw CSO1, the technical expert was a CSO4. I didn't really like to bother him with my trivial problems. There's a lesson there for management everywhere. Oh, the test environment was someone else's 168 running MVS, the production environment our 145 with VS1. -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Advice http://webfoot.com/advice/email.top.php http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html http://support.microsoft.com/kb/555375 You cannot reply off-list:-) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
