Somewhere around, I've got some paper tape ... and a whole box of punch cards (I used the back to make index cards). Dave Vaughan wrote: > I still have some code on paper tape. It was for a Digital PDP-8. In > order to boot the machine you had to key in the bootstrap loader on > rocker switches in octal. > > Dave Vaughan > > [email protected] wrote: > >>---- singhals <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>>[email protected] wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>>To Gary and all others thank you for the information on vista.? Yes, to me OPS in operating system. >>>> >>>>Bob Trapp >>>>Fairfield, CA >>>> >>> >>>(G) As a favor to the older ones of us, could you use OS >>>instead of OPS? It would save us sitting around looking >>>(and feeling!) dumb. ;) >>> >>>Cheryl (who remembers having OS choices of IBM or Honeywell) >>> >> >> >>When was the last time you IPL'd a machine? >>When was the last time you punched up JCL or OCL cards? >>8>) >>Dick Miller >>Hot Springs Village, AR >> -- There should be no attachments on this message, unless I specifically mentioned them above.

Boy you guys must be "ancient", I used paper tape and advanced to punch cards in 1966, when I started in computers. : > )) Don Boudreaux Lafayette, La. singhals wrote: > Somewhere around, I've got some paper tape ... and a whole > box of punch cards (I used the back to make index cards). > > > > > Dave Vaughan wrote: > > >> I still have some code on paper tape. It was for a Digital PDP-8. In >> order to boot the machine you had to key in the bootstrap loader on >> rocker switches in octal. >> >> Dave Vaughan >> >> [email protected] wrote: >> >> >>> ---- singhals <[email protected]> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> [email protected] wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> To Gary and all others thank you for the information on vista.? Yes, to me OPS in operating system. >>>>> >>>>> Bob Trapp >>>>> Fairfield, CA >>>>> >>>>> >>>> (G) As a favor to the older ones of us, could you use OS >>>> instead of OPS? It would save us sitting around looking >>>> (and feeling!) dumb. ;) >>>> >>>> Cheryl (who remembers having OS choices of IBM or Honeywell) >>>> >>>> >>> When was the last time you IPL'd a machine? >>> When was the last time you punched up JCL or OCL cards? >>> 8>) >>> Dick Miller >>> Hot Springs Village, AR >>> >>> > > >

Don Boudreaux wrote: > Boy you guys must be "ancient", I used paper tape and advanced to > punch cards in 1966, when I started in computers. : > )) > > > Don Boudreaux > Lafayette, La. > I was teaching and wiring boards in 1963 for an IBM 6400. Writing code for real computers in 1965 when sys360 was born. Retired in 1987. Dick Miller Retired IBM System Engineer