In the early 1980s I was working for a large grocery chain (Checkers) here
in South Africa and the ICL 15xx boxes were used as branch level machines
connected via our country-wide network to the central data processing
facility with ICL 2900-type machines running VME/B. The 15xx programmes
were wr
What about the chilling sound of a head crash?
Ziiiggg kluk kluk kluk...
On 1 March 2017 at 23:22, Warner Losh via cctalk
wrote:
> All this talk of the sounds hammering away and the console reminded me.
>
> There's another part of the experience: when a system crashed...
>
> There was a dis
I'm a genuine hobbyist - I've been trying to keep examples of every
os/system I've ever worked with to play with now that I've retired (either
hardware or emulation based). My VAX equipment turned to carbonised scrap
due to lightning a while ago and I'm now emulation based and have been
using the H
Yeah, my contract to a large University fixing all their COBOL stuff
finished in October 1998.
On Sun, 5 Apr 2020 at 16:29, Bill Gunshannon via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 4/5/20 12:54 AM, Chuck Guzis via cctalk wrote:
> > On 4/4/20 9:47 PM, Fred Cisin via cctalk wrote:
> >> On Sa
I'm convinced that Dijksta (and anyone else who came out with similar
comments were full of horseshit. In my opinion, it's the ability to
translate a real world "thing" into an algorithm that is the essense of
programming, and anyone who has managed to learn (particularly on their
own, as many of
I never used COBOL on the 150x machines, all of our stuff was done in EBB
(Extended Business Basic), which was a rather bletcherous language IIRC. I
must admit, I'm rather surprised to learn that something as big a COBOL
would fit on the machine.
On Tue, 7 Apr 2020 at 19:46, jos via cctalk wrote
<
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On 4/7/20 2:38 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
> > I never used COBOL on the 150x machines, all of our stuff was done in EBB
> > (Extended Business Basic), which was a rather bletcherous language
> IIRC. I
> > must admit, I&#x
x27;m fairly sure I never implied that anywhere.
On Wed, 8 Apr 2020 at 00:48, Chuck Guzis via cctalk
wrote:
> On 4/7/20 3:24 PM, Neil Thompson via cctalk wrote:
> > Why? Because we used to run out of resources regularly on that machine
> > writing the stuff in EBB, which was also comp
