Now, see???....... THAT is a great piece of information! I *hate* those damn numbers.... always having to do NUM OFF and many times having (or just wanting) to clear the numbers off the end (just because it seems cleaner to me.... (i'm a bit anal that way). But, now I know the origin and that changes everything.
Thanks, Dave! -- All the best, Scott T. Harder On 5/27/09, Gibney, Dave <[email protected]> wrote: > And now you know the origin of sequence numbers in columns 73-80. > Card reader/sorter/punch/printer machines predate these fancy new > computers :) > I never saw them (I started at a remote reader/printer attached to a > 370), but I'm told we did have the machines that you rewired a circuit > board to change the program. > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On >> Behalf Of Scott T. Harder >> Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2009 9:27 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Book on Poughkeepsie >> >> VBG. Too funny. I've heard many stories about card decks being >> dropped every which-way, but what did you have to do when that >> happened? Were they numbered or denoted in some way where you could >> put the deck back together? Must have been, but what a job; like >> trying to find a mis-filed tape. ;-) And, I would think that >> everything else came to a halt while the deck was re-ordered. >> >> -- >> All the best, >> Scott T. Harder >> >> >> On 5/27/09, Patrick O'Keefe <[email protected]> wrote: >> > On Tue, 26 May 2009 23:37:49 -0400, Scott T. Harder >> > <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> >>... >> >>Never heard of 96-column cards, though. Just some ignorance on my >> >>part with that one. >> >>... >> > >> > The "96-column" card was really 3 tiers of 32 columns. 6 bits per >> logical >> > column. It was small (3-1/4 inch wide by 2-5/8 inch high) with > small >> > round holes.) It was used on the S/3. I'm not sure it was used by >> > anything else. >> > >> > The small card size had both advantages and disadvantages. Large >> > decks were light so people tended to pick up decks that were too > large. >> > If you tried picking up a deck that was much longer that the card's >> width >> > you were left holding the first and last card with the rest of the > deck >> > sprayed across the room. >> > >> > Pat O'Keefe >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
