My first computer was a 1902 in Melbourne Australia. I then went to Shell Oil and worked on an English Electric Leo.
Then an IBM 65 arrived. And I wrote the first version of Jol to replace JCL in about 1968 or 1969 in PL/1 and converted it Assembler to run in a 16K (?) Partition. The ICL 1902 was assembler only then. Cobol was just being "played" with. It needed 4 tape decks to do a compile. The LEO at Shell could multi program back in the '60s. It also had a compiler language called CLEO that was a bit similar to COBOL. A bit... On Tue, 27 Feb. 2024, 8:47 pm Martin Packer, <[email protected]> wrote: > My Dad (now long since retired) worked with 1904βs and then 29xx and 39xx. > > (He also had IBM kit in the end β 3090 β but that isnβt really how I got > into IBM.) π > > I think there was / is a 1904 in the Science Museum in London. > > Cheers, Martin > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Steve Thompson <[email protected]> > Date: Monday, 26 February 2024 at 22:02 > To: [email protected] <[email protected]> > Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Signing off > I had to re-read that line "first started on an ICL 1904" a few > times before I my brain realized that was a model number and not > a year. > > Blue skies and tail winds. > > Enjoy your next set of activities. > > Regards, > Steve Thompson > > On 2/26/2024 2:51 PM, Sean Gleann wrote: > > This list has been a great source of ideas and information, although I've > > never really been a 'contributor' here, but more of a 'lurker'. Whenever > > I've seen a thread that I might be able to respond to, someone else gets > in > > first with a response very similar to the one that I thought of. > > > > So, I hope you won't mind me speaking up now to say that it's time for > this > > tired old mainframer to toddle off into the sunset... after 50 years of > > working with mainframe systems, I feel it's time to hang up my keyboard > and > > call it a day. > > > > I first started on an ICL 1904 - punched cards, paper tape, core memory, > > 60MB disks, GEORGE II - but quickly saw the light and moved to another > > employer that used a 360/30 roughly 8 years after the series was first > > marketed. Since then, aside from a brief entanglement with a Burroughs > > B4700, it's been IBM all the way. > > > > I have to say that it's (mostly) been a lot of fun. From one aspect, I've > > never really worked a day in my life. Instead, I've been paid a lot of > > money to play on other people's expensive toys. > > > > Here's wishing all of you good luck and good fortune for the future. I'll > > be thinking about doing some travelling - haven't made it to South > America > > or Africa yet. > > > > Regards > > Sean o'bhaile na Gleann > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > -- > Regards, Steve Thompson > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > Unless otherwise stated above: > > IBM United Kingdom Limited > Registered in England and Wales with number 741598 > Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hants. PO6 3AU > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
