Thanks for this Neale, It brought back so many memories. I started in 1969 on a 360/30 with 8k. Yes 8k. 2k for supervisor, leaving 6k for processing in BG (background) and possibly F1 (foreground). We actually got lots of work done. Reading in 10-20,000 cards containing cobol statements was a chore with lots of jams and keypunch repro's. 7trk tape drives leading finally to 9trk, WOW !!!. 2311 disks at first then 3330's, then 3350's and finally 3380's and 3390's much later. 360/30 to a 360/40 to a 370/145 to a 4381 (2 of them) to a 3083 and on and on. I started at 17 and found it all very exciting back then. I recently gave up looking for work in Florida after 6 months so I decided to retire, but I do miss the game.
Thanks again. John Clifford Old DOS, OS/VS, VS1, MFT, MVS, OS/390, Z/OS guy On Sun, Dec 11, 2016 at 10:43 AM, Neale Ferguson <[email protected]> wrote: > 370/155, 3330, and 3311. > > https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=YLAnuWfXY-M > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
