Ah yes the 1403: I remember at Florida Power we had a deck of cards that could be "Printed" to play "Anchors Away My Boys".
And as someone mentioned, not all control tape channels had punches, so a skip channel character at the beginning of a line either accidentally or on purpose, could empty a full box or green bar paper. Then there were those crazy FORTRAN engineering students working late at night. I would help the operators at USF run payroll sometimes so I could get on machine quicker. And then once I wrote a FORTRAN program punched on 5081 cards that "Printed" a birthday cake with candles and the name of a girl. My first graphics program mixed in with all those thermo calculations. Don Higgins [email protected] www.don-higgins.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
