[Elecraft] Now that we know

[Tom Althoff]

Interesting thread!  Let me put my 2 cents in before it gets shut down...
At Prudential Ins. Co in Newark NJ we ran ASP on a 370.   ASP stood for
"Attached Support Processor" and the 370 controlled two 360's.
We were force to learn JCL one night because our shift supervisor didn't
like operator's standing around waiting for tapes to be mounted and thought
it would be more productive to train us..
I used to know how to IPL the 370 and might be able to dial in F980
<interrupt> <start> <start> to recover from a machine halt on a 360.
We ran "load and go" Fortran IV on a GE machine at Newark College of
Engineering.  Hand in the cards one day...get a printout the next.  OR hand
in the cards one day and get boxes of paper back from a core dump with an
angry note from the department head!

Its nice to know I'm not the only old fart on this list!

73 de Tom K2TA

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Morrow" <kk5f at earthlink.net>
To: "Elecraft Mail" <Elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 17, 2005 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Now that we know


> Kevin wrote:
>
> > The memories are good ones but I realize the kids working
> > the store were not born when those computers were first
> > considered obsolete.
>
> I spent many a happy evening with Ga. Tech's Univac 1108 scientific
mainframe 35 years ago, and their older but clever stack machine known as
the Burroughs B5500.
>
> Later, as a EE grad student at U of Arkansas after leaving the Navy, I
learned about IBM's famous System 360/370.  How many people today remember
the "Houston Automatic Spooler Program (HASP)" or would understand a
bumpersticker that read "Honk if you love JCL!"
>
> Today, we are most of us computer appliance operators, who learn
application programs, but know little about the hardware and firmware
beneath the application.
>
> 73,
> Mike / KK5F
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