Ray, It's a *card* thing - along with felt-tipped pens, elastic bands and 029 card punches[1] - and you'd be needing a 2540 or 2501 to read your object decks (modules) in and a 2540 to get them punched out from the compiler/assembler.
[1] http://www.computinghistorymuseum.org/museum/punch_zoom.htm Checking I had my fact right, I had a bit of a shock when I thought I might be looking at the first 2540 I ever fed but it's the university not the IBM service bureau: http://www.cs.ncl.ac.uk/events/anniversaries/40th/images/ibm360_672/slide19.html Chris Mason ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ray Mullins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, 19 April, 2006 12:51 AM Subject: Re: What's the linkage editor really wants? > ... > Too bad, actually...I could see some usefulness, although there are lots of > other ways around this, and I don't know if this actually solves a real > need. > > Later, > Ray ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
