On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:38 PM, Joel M. Benisch wrote:

> Oh how I miss the well defined structure of the RPG II processing cycle.
> Was so simple and elegant......
> And easy to learn!!  :-)
> 
> And being able to pick up a card and read it by interpreting the hole punches 
> in your head was the geek's equivalent of winning the Super Bowl....

Either that or being able to toggle in the boot sequence on a PDP11 without 
referring to any manuals.  Ah, the good ol' days.

Alan

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> Those were the days....
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> On Jul 6, 2011, at 4:25 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
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>> 
>> On 2011-07-06, at 1:57 PM, Karl wrote:
>> 
>>> I see it every day at the airport.  Was that a CICS exception or VSAM issue?
>>> 
>>> Oh...wow...no it was a ‘RTSO’ exception.  (Real time sharing option for you 
>>> youngsters...now I am really ageing myself).
>> 
>> And bringing back long suppressed memories for some of us. 
>> 
>> 
>>> Can you believe that they charged $2-3k per year for your terminal to 
>>> respond in some semblance of real time?
>>> 
>>> Karl
>>> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 8:51 PM, Petite Abeille wrote:
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>>>> On Jul 6, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Ken Anderson wrote:
>>>> 
>>>>> To me, just the fact that WebObjects has been around since 1996 (15 
>>>>> years!) means that it has more legs than any other tool I can think of.
>>>> 
>>>> Rumor has it that COBOL is still going strong in some less travelled 
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