First, My own congratulations on new venture in life! "Life is a banquet and most poor suckers are starving to death!" go out and live! You did not retire from life!
Second: "Sort Needle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card look at the second on "Needle Card." Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 Information Technology University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Brennan Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 1:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: EOJ, literally. Wow, 2 months shy of 50 years. Congratulations! But what in the world was a sort needle? Tony's Outlook via Mozilla wrote: > Colleagues, I saying my professional goodbye. I retired at noon today > after 49 years and 10 months in the business. The career began > sorting cards and wiring panels. Progressing past all the card > machines to Autocoder, RPG, Cobol, VSE, VM, PL1, Quikjob, Easytrieve, > Panvalet, SAS, MVS sysprogging (barely qualified), Top Secret, RACF, > it's become time to hang up the sort needle and card gauge. > > IBM-MAIN and Assembler-L (again, I barely qualify) have been a great > source of education and entertainment. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
