When I worked for a vendor, I was waiting for a VP to meet me at an account.
While we were waiting in the lobby, he said to me pointing at a machine in a
glass case, "Do you know what THAT THING is?" I said yes, it's an x15, we
use to use to punch date cards. He said "What's a date card?"
.....................Kids!
But guess what? A 12 zone with a 1-9 still epresents A-I respectively as
does 11 1-9 and 0 2-9, So happy birthday.
Bill
From: "(IBM Mainframe Discussion List)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Subject: Re: Hollerith anniversary
Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2007 11:04:16 EDT
In a message dated 6/8/2007 7:52:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
>Wow, what are you trying to do Bill? Make those of us who started in
this business using punch cards feel like old geezers.
I'm an old geezer, too. I started programming in October 1965. My S/360
experience began 4 months later.
Where would we have been without good old Herman Hollerith?
A few years ago I took my car to the Reed Brothers Dodge dealership in
Rockville, Maryland for maintenance. I saw a plaque on the wall there
that said
many years earlier one of the Reed Brothers had been a business partner of
Thomas Watson, Sr. in his brand new business machines venture. He
apparently
gave that up to own a car dealership. Wow. What a lost opportunity. The
Reed
Brothers Dodge place was, coincidentally, on the same road as, and within
6
miles, of IBM's Washington System Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland.
Small world, and filled with old geezers.
Bill Fairchild
Plainfield, IL
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