I never used a 3270 in my early career (1975-78). I joined IBM in 1978 and we still used punch cards built on an 029 card punch. Customers generally got the technology before IBM internal.
In a team of 20 we had a handful of Series 1 emulating a 3270 and you had to book a 30 minute session to input your code. That's when I learned the job deck with a TYPRUN=COPY statement. One way to build up your program between sessions. On Thu, Nov 9, 2023 at 6:29 AM Paul Gilmartin < 0000042bfe9c879d-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Nov 2023 13:46:09 -0500, Phil Smith III wrote: > > >Stuart Holland wrote, in part: > >>Also, the cards only had the punches - no text across the top. > > > >That was called "interpreting" cards, IIRC. I forget whether there was a > machine to do this (not that a site with no more punches or readers would > have had one!), but I bet others here will remember. > > > <https://www.ibm.com/ibm/history/reference/faq_0000000011.html> > 550 Interpreter? (Many hits fail with 404.) > Q What was the IBM 550? > A Introduced in 1930, the IBM 550 Automatic > Interpreter was the first commercial IBM machine capable of sensing > numerical data punched in cards and printing such data across the top of > each card. The information to be printed could be placed in any sequence. > The machine automatically interpreted at the rate of 75 cards a minute or > 4,500 cards an hour. The feeding hopper had a capacity of 800 cards, and > the stacker in which the interpreted cards were deposited had a capacity of > 1,000 cards. > > "placed in any sequence." But not aligned with the holes, if that > mattered. > > 1930! > > -- > gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
