At 16:49 -0700 on 04/18/2006, Ray Mullins wrote about Re: What's the
linkage editor really wants?:
I'm old enough to know what an 029 is. And an 026. I have memories of
punching card decks.
I was in college from 1964-1968 and our computer lab had 1620 a CPU
and 026 Card Punches. In my senior year we also got a 360 (either a
model 30 or 40) which meant that 029s had to be added (to punch decks
for 360 programs that used EBCDIC not BCD). The 029s had to be marked
as 360-Only to prevent the 1620 programs from bring punched on them
if I remember correctly since some keys generated different punches
depending on if you needed BCD or EBCDIC (I think Parens were one of
these cases).
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