You are right and wrong. I worked with that hardware for a year and it was a Univac 1004 card processor. We had a small programming staff that maintained the programs in punch card format. That deck was loaded first. Data cards were loaded after the program, update cards in the aux reader, and an aux card punch to punch out updated data cards. (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UNIVAC)
I did get to wire the plugboards for the standalone card printer and collator. Also a card sorter. The 'data base' was over 20,000 cards requiring 3 per member of the 2nd Infantry Division. Gary Gary L. Shiminsky Senior zVM/zVSE Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Group Department of Information Technology State of New Hampshire 27 Hazen Drive Concord, NH 03301 603-271-1509 Fax 603-271-1516 Statement of Confidentiality: The contents of this message are confidential. Any unauthorized disclosure, reproduction, use or dissemination (either whole or in part) is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, please notify the sender immediately and delete the message from your system. -----Original Message----- From: "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[email protected]> Organization: Atid/2 Reply-To: IBM List <[email protected]> Date: Friday, July 26, 2013 9:34 AM To: IBM List <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Blame the COBOL, how cliché >In <ce16e718.ad880%[email protected]>, on 07/25/2013 > at 06:36 PM, "Shiminsky, Gary" <[email protected]> said: > >>When I was in the Army in Korea we ran on Univac 1004 card >>processors. > >ITYM 1005. > >>Occasionally the program card decks > >You programmed the 1004 with a plugboard. > >-- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> >We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. >(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
