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Hershey bars cost a nickel....") > I don't know about a total IT budget of $38k, but in 1975 licensed software was pretty much a novelty. The first priced version of MVS (or any other IBM OS except perhaps ACP/TPF?) had yet to appear, and most software was written in house. Some shops were using priced IBM software like PL/I Optimizer, or the COBOL equivalent, and bigger places ran non-free IMS and/or CICS. And there were priced (duh) products from other vendors, like Syncsort. But buying run-the-business application packages was pretty rare. Tony H. Tony: What about payroll applications. I seem to recall back then companies ran that application and just about nothing else. My memory is iffy here but I think UCC (or was it a precursor?) had a huge payroll package. Russ could verify that. My memory is iffy here but most(all?) of the UCC payroll package was COBOL. There may have been 1 or 2 other PAYROLL applications but couldn't come up with names. I worked at a bank and we had a dedicated mod 50 (IIRC) just for online savings TP system and that was all that was run on it. We also had a mod 40 or 30 (do not remember) we had for credit card system which I think was part of a nationwide system (precursor to Master card & Visa) Town & Country charge seems right but do not remember. There were other systems besides CICS & IMS is what I am saying doing decent amount of work. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
