DITTO :) !!! Psst: I've been with my current employer for around 26 years. -----Original Message----- Schuh, Richard Wrote: Fran,
Congratulations. You have been able to achieve something that most of us have not even been able to imagine. -----Original Message----- > From: The IBM z/VM Operating System > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Fran Hensler > Sent: Monday, May 05, 2008 10:22 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: My 45th Anniversary at SRU > > This is cross-posted to VSE-L and IBMVM-L. > > Today is my 45th anniversary in data processing at Slippery > Rock University of PA. On May 6, 1963 I founded the Data > Processing Center at the then Slippery Rock State College. > The center consisted of one half-time key punch operator and > me. My mission was to automate student registration by the > fall semester and have class lists in the hands of faculty > before the first class meeting. We had an arena style > registration for 1996 students in three days. The class > lists were produced after working 27 straight hours. > > We had Series 50 (half speed) IBM punched card tabulating equipment: > One 024 keypunch, a 548 interpreter, 082 sorter, 085 collator, > 514 reproducing punch and a 402 accounting machine that could > print 50 lines per minute. The 402 could only add and > subtract. Later we acquired a > 604 calculator that could divide and therefore calculate QPA. > All of these machines were programmed by wiring plugboards. > > In 1968 we installed an IBM System/360 Model 30 computer with > 32K core memory and 14.5M of 2311 disk storage running > DOS/360 Release 17. Now the 7.5 hour job of sorting course > cards took 10 minutes! > > Six model 2260 terminals were purchased in 1972 and I > designed an on-line student registration system (using > FASTER, a forerunner of CICS) that is still in use today, > under the covers, in the RockTalk system whereby students can > register via telephone or on the web. For the first on-line > registration that fall, all six terminals were setup in the > Student Union. It took 3 days to register 5897 students. > > Students had to punch their programming assignments into cards until > 1975 when I implemented IJS (Interactive Job Submission) to > allow input and printing via DECwriters at a speed of 110 > baud and eventually 300 baud. > > In 1985 SRU acquired an IBM 4361 computer with 12M main > memory. I tailored the VM/SP Operating System Release 3 for > student use of WATFIV, WATBOL, Pascal, C, Lisp, SPSS, ADA, > Basic, Spitbol and Assist and two years later, Modula-2. > > The 1990 connection to BITNET brought email and file transfer > capabilities with other universities. 1992 saw the > acquisition of an IBM 9221-170 computer with 96M of main > memory and SRU was finally able to connect to the Internet. > Since 2003 VSE and VM are running on an 18-MIPS FLEX-ES system. > > I have enjoyed being a programmer, systems analyst and most > of all a systems programmer. I have been honored by > receiving the SRU President's Award for Outstanding Service > in 1994 and being inducted into the Order of Knights of VM as > "Sir Fran of the Rock" in 2007. > > I would like to hear from anyone who has had a career with a > single employer running more than 45 years. > > /Fran Hensler at Slippery Rock University of Pennsylvania USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] +1.724.738.2153 > "Yes, Virginia, there is a Slippery Rock" -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.
