Do you remember the 024?
"Sigh... these youngsters!"
Mike Walter, 2010
Regards,
Richard Schuh
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jefferson Davis
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 2:42 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: FW: DISKACNT records
>
> For heaven's sake, I meant the 026. I am losing it in my old age.
>
> Jeff
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jefferson Davis [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:39 PM
> To: 'The IBM z/VM Operating System'
> Subject: RE: DISKACNT records
>
> I sure wished we had a keypunch department .... we had to
> punch our own!
> Good old 1403.
>
> :-)
>
> Jefferson Davis
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Walter
> Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2010 12:08 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: DISKACNT records
>
> Sigh... these youngsters!
>
> History lesson: ON
> Completed coding sheets are output from programmers (perhaps
> their only valuable output).
>
> After exhaustive "desk checking" (olde English for "a
> complete and utter waste of time", since programmer's are
> always perfect), the coding sheets were then input to the
> keypunch department which output punch cards.
>
> The punched cards were then input to computer operators
> (well, at least one of their known inputs besides coffee and
> candy bars and God knows what else on 3rd shift) who loaded
> them as input into punch card readers (one hopes good old
> 2540's- not those newfangled 3505 optical card readers that
> were always jammed by the slightest dust mote, of which card
> provided aplenty).
>
> Provided that one of the F1, F2, or BG partitions was open
> when the punched cards were read by the punched card reader,
> and the computer operator had the appropriate UPSI switches
> set properly, and had uttered the correct mystical
> incantations at the right time, the computer would process
> the punched cards into its core memory and execute them as a
> program, or supply them for a program's input needs.
> History lesson: OFF
>
> Hey... if they had optical card readers, why weren't there
> any optical card punches? Think of all the chaff that could
> have been saved! ;-)
>
> Mike Walter
> Hewitt Associates
> The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.
>
