Subj : Re: How do you use unix?
To : KnightMare
From : Amessyroom
Date : Wed Sep 04 2024 07:48 am
Re: Re: How do you use unix?
By: KnightMare to Gandolf on Tue Sep 03 2024 10:40 pm
Kn> Re: Re: How do you use unix?
Kn> By: Gandolf to Amessyroom on Mon Sep 02 2024 10:11 pm
Ga>> I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a daily
Ga>> basis.
Kn> I started my IT carrer since HS. (1980)
Kn> Cut my teeth on our timesharing system using a 300baud dialup connection
Kn> from Kearny NJ to Perth Amboy NJ.
Kn> On Tue and Wed a group of us (5) went to the VoTech in Jersey City NJ and
Kn> we spent 4 hours learning RPG II on punched cards and 8 1/2 inch floppies.
Kn> On Tuesday, we prgrammed our cards and they were stored in a box. On
Kn> Thursday, we would have our print outs waiting for us, hoping the program
Kn> didn't bomb and we had to spend the time manually debugging errors with
Kn> each other.
Kn> I still have one of the 5 disc CDI discpacks given to me as a momento and
Kn> a floppy with nothing on the label save for the name of my IBM AS/400 name
Kn> : "AMPLIBR". We all named our libraries (LIBR) prefixed with our initials.
Wild. I never did punch cards. But in high school we had to enter our code RPG II/COBOL onto 8-inch disks , then the disks were loaded into our IBM System 34 or something similar. And the jobs were ran in batch as you expressed. Wow I remember the waiting, like you said to see if it was going to run or not.
Now days you just you can compile/interpret as many times as you need/want; not as much time is spent or concern given on whether the code is going to run :-)
Fortunately, we had some TRS-80 Model II/16 systems also that we did BASIC on. So it wasn't all batch.
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