Nows your chance.  https://gunkies.org/wiki/Running_TOPS-20_V4.1_under_SIMH

On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 4:38 PM Joe Monk <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> My GE 1101 (1st level Gen Engineering) class was PASCAL programming on a
> DecSystem running TOPS20.
>
> Never used it again.
>
> Joe
>
> On Sat, Sep 17, 2022 at 3:55 PM Brian Westerman <
> [email protected]> wrote:
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> > ME Too!!   I can't remember ever using my Fortran after the class was
> > over.  Luckily the instructor also offered an assembler class that he
> > taught "on the side" for an extra $50.  I still use the stuff he taught us
> > almost every day.
> >
> > Brian
> >
> > On Sat, 17 Sep 2022 19:29:01 +0000, Farley, Peter x23353 <
> > [email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > >My experience was the opposite of yours over a few more years (50).  I
> > learned assembler early via OJT at one of my first permanent jobs, and got
> > to use it more and more as I moved to other employers.  Knowing assembler
> > got me in the door at more than one of those employers.
> > >
> > >It was the FORTRAN I learned in engineering college that I never used
> > anywhere else.
> > >
> > >Peter
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf
> > Of Bob T Roller
> > >Sent: Saturday, September 17, 2022 3:17 PM
> > >To: [email protected]
> > >Subject: Re: Assembler courses
> > >
> > >Learning assembler is like taking latin in high school. It might help you
> > on Jeopardy but will not be of much help in real life. I took assembler in
> > college & never used it and never worked at an employer that used it.
> > That’s a dozen+ employers over 45 years.
> > >
> > >Sent from Proton Mail for iOS
> > >
> > >On Fr , Sep 16, 2022 at 10:11 PM, Gary Weinhold <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > >> To help a person who has COBOL and C language experience learn to write
> > assembler, I would like them to learn from the start both reentrant and
> > baseless coding techniques. Is there training available that assumes the
> > instruction set available on the z12 is the starting point and that teaches
> > reentrancy as the norm?
> > >>
> > >> (Cross-posted to IBM-Main and Assembler-list)
> > >>
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