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Subject: Re: LA and the IBM 1130
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Date: Thu, 29-Jan-87 17:12:54 EST
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Posted: Thu Jan 29 17:12:54 1987
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In article <895@aicchi.UUCP> dbb@aicchi.UUCP (Burch) writes:
>My first computer job was a summer job with the school district.  They
>had a 8K 1130, a 1442 Reader/Punch, and some sort of printer (I don't
>remember which).  We ran RPG and had to endlessly sort cards on a beat-up
>73 sorter...  Gosh! And here I set at my Macintosh, just 13 years later!

My first computer job was on an IBM System/32.  It had <gasp> a 13Mb disk
(only 3ft across, mind you) instead of puch cards by the time I got there.
It also spoke (and still speaks) RPG II.  I didn't know anyone else still
knew RPG.  How about swapping H,F,E,L,I,C, and O specs?  I always liked
the interesting flow-control in RPG.

And what am I on now?  IBM PC/AT w/ 4 slave processors.  Pretty good
improvement, I'd say.

Jim Frost
Various Employers and Associated Organizations
madd@bucsf.bu.edu
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