I remember talking to someone at Centrefile in London and he joked about the time he was invited to a game a bit like hockey, but using removable hard disc covers. Not exactly by the rules...
And I remember writing Rexx to work on an infinite series for pi to a stupid number of decimal places. It got cancelled by automated ops almost immediately, so I wrote a little delay function for Rexx using STIMER WAIT to slow it down. I added a simple checkpoint so it could restart and got a surprisingly good result before I chickened out and stopped it. I only kept what I scribbled on the back of my SVC number cheat sheet. Years later I played Kate Bush's song and I found errors, but it turned out that Kate Bush sang the first error and mine was wrong a few digits later :-) Roops On Thu., Jan. 20, 2022, 02:08 Bob Bridges, <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL! I never thought of that one. But I definitely would have tried it, > if I had. > > Back in my youth, I mean, of course :). > > --- > Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 > > /* Karl Marx and his followers, including some tatterdemalion hangers-on > who have dragged their ideology into the 21st century, reasoned from > individual cupidity to an indictment of the capitalist system. Marxists > were wrong in doing so, because capitalism is a mechanism for coping with > cupidity, not for enhancing it. -William F Buckley, Jr, 2003-04-25 */ > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf > Of Mitch Mccluhan > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2022 14:44 > > ...the most fun was when you had a punch card system where a co-worker > was sorting a few columns of approximately 25K cards and asked you to help > carry a stack. When they weren't looking, you pick up a stack of garbage > cards instead, take a few steps and "accidentally" drop the stack. So much > fun! Of course, this was before true operating systems. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
