I started at IBM in Toronto in August 1964. 1401's, a 1440, a 1460, a 7044, an 1130 and all the unit record equipment you could want except 403s and 407s, We also had Tape-to-Tape data flow over a phone line in the evenings between Montreal and Toronto and Vancouver and Toronto using 200BPI horizontal vacuum column tape drives. Soon thereafter, we had a 360/20 with an MFCM. I will leave the multiple interpretations of MFCM to those from that era.
Anyone else out there remember learning and using Autocoder and FARGO? I will forego panel wiring for the time being as this was an interesting programming method learned first. Cheers, John T. Abell Tel: 800-295-7608 Option 4 President International: 1-416-593-5578 Option 4 E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 800-295-7609 International: 1-416-593-5579 International Software Products www.ispinfo.com This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, retention, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive on behalf of the named recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Also,email is susceptible to data corruption, interception, tampering, unauthorized amendment and viruses. We only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Myers Sent: Thursday, March 09, 2017 8:08 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". Warren: My God, you've been around even longer than me. I only joined IBM on Nov. 9, 1964 and started programming school the day before OS/360 went GA. How many other old f***s (friends) have we out here on this forum? Mike Myers Mentor Services Corporation (919) 341-5210 On 03/09/2017 07:39 PM, Warren Brown wrote: > I thought it was me . .joined IBM the same day as the 360 was > announced > -------------------------------------------- > On Thu, 3/9/17, Anne & Lynn Wheeler <[email protected]> wrote: > > Subject: Re: curious: why S/360 & decendants are "big endian". > To: [email protected] > Date: Thursday, March 9, 2017, 7:26 PM > > [email protected] > (John McKown) writes: > > ​Same in other > books I've seen. Why? Probably because we write from top > to > > bottom. We write the lowest first, > at the top, and the highest last, at the > > bottom. And then we confuse everybody by > calling them "ascending" memory > > addresses while writing them in a > descending pattern. English is a _stupid_ > > language. > > in the 70s as fullscreen 3270s editors were > starting to appear, there > was big editor > culture wars over up & down. > > prior to that, line-editing was from > perspective of the user ... "up" > moving towards the "top" (beginning) > of the file and "down" was moving > towards the "bottom" (end) of the > file. > > The side that had > enhanced previous line editors to support 3270 > fullscreen and preserved the up/down > orientation (meaning). > > A > couple of "new" 3270 fullscreen editors, done from > scratch, insisted > on "up" was from > the orientation of the program (not the user), the > program would move the file up ... towards the > bottom of the file or > move the file > "down" ... towards the top of the file (difference > was` > whether up/down was from the human > perspective or the program/software > perspective). > > -- > virtualization experience > starting Jan1968, online at home since Mar1970 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
