All I know is it was an IBM minicomputer, and there was no IT department running it.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of [email protected] Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:06 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Does HLASM use NOTE and POINT on UNIX files? > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Schmitt, Michael > Sent: 31 March 2022 17:58 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Does HLASM use NOTE and POINT on UNIX files? > > Good point. Maybe it was a System/36? I would have thought a System/38. Really the predecessor of the AS/400. Even System/36 was not available in 1980.... Dave > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <ASSEMBLER- > [email protected]> On Behalf Of Dave Clark > Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2022 11:53 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Does HLASM use NOTE and POINT on UNIX files? > > "IBM Mainframe Assembler List" <[email protected]> > wrote on > 03/31/2022 12:47:06 PM: > > In 1980 I worked at a photofinishing plant that used punched cards > > with an IBM minicomputer running AS/400. It also used paper tape, but > > not with the AS/400. > > > > Can anyone guess why? I'll give a hint: it is industry workflow related. > > > I don't have the answer to your question, but -- color me confused > -- how did you work on an AS/400 in 1980 when it didn't become available > until 1988? > > > Sincerely, > > Dave Clark > -- > int.ext: 91078 > direct: (937) 531-6378 > home: (937) 751-3300 > > Winsupply Group Services > 3110 Kettering Boulevard > Dayton, Ohio 45439 USA > (937) 294-5331 > > > > > > ********************************************************** > *********************************** > This email message and any attachments is for use only by the named > addressee(s) and may contain confidential, privileged and/or proprietary > information. If you have received this message in error, please immediately > notify the sender and delete and destroy the message and all copies. All > unauthorized direct or indirect use or disclosure of this message is strictly > prohibited. No right to confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any > error in transmission. > ********************************************************** > ***********************************
