Wayne, I didn’t learn C or SPSS for example, learned the IBM Lang’s, Assembler, Cobol, PL/1 and FORTRAN IV and of course rexx and various other command list languages on VM and MVS. But your reference to IBM 3600 brought my past life as a VSE Sysprog we wrote 3600 replacement programs for 8100s . The environment was manufacturing and CICS , good ole younger days, thank you.
Scott On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 4:22 PM Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > SPPS was the language. Google can't find it but it's embedded in the 3651 > store controller manuals. > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 06:01 Wayne Bickerdike <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I thought the macros were part of CONCEPT 14? I do remember working on > IBM > > 3684 point of sale systems between 1982 and 1986. They were programmed > > using an Asembler like language called SPSS II, it had IF THEN ELSE and > > other macros. > > > > On Mon, Apr 27, 2020, 03:36 Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> Those macros were not part of the assembler. As I recall there was a > >> popular macro package called CONCEPT 101 (sp?) floating around, and > another > >> package called PROC, but they didn't come from IBM. > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >> > >> ________________________________________ > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > behalf > >> of Mike Schwab [[email protected]] > >> Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 1:25 PM > >> To: [email protected] > >> Subject: Re: C > >> > >> I was doing an internship in the Chicago area during the summer of > >> 1984. They were using an assembler with IF macros. > >> > >> On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 2:11 PM Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> > > >> > HLASM in 1980? Not before June 1992. I assume that you were using XF > >> and H, possibly with the SLAC mods on the latter (thank you, Greg and > John.) > >> > > >> > > >> > -- > >> > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > >> > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >> > > >> > ________________________________________ > >> > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on > >> behalf of Donald Blake [[email protected]] > >> > Sent: Sunday, April 26, 2020 8:51 AM > >> > To: [email protected] > >> > Subject: C > >> > > >> > I took my first C course in 1980. The text was the original *The C > >> > programming Language* by Kerrigan and Richie, which I still have on my > >> > shelf, The text is copyright 1978. That's 42 years ago. I was an IBM > HL > >> > Assembler programmer at the time. BTW ... we still were using IFOX00 > at > >> the > >> > time as well. > >> > > >> > > Hey, it's not politically correct to point out how old C is. > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > -- > >> > > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > >> > > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > >> > > > >> > > >> > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> > 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 > >> > >> > >> > >> -- > >> Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA > >> Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? > >> > >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> 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 > -- Scott Ford IDMWORKS z/OS Development ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
