On Monday 18 September 2006 12:10, Carl William Spitzer IV wrote:
If you were an IBM employee you must be old. I'm 50--- year of Jubilee... Do you remember EBCDIC encoding in which IBM said they would have their own binary code and to hell with any standards? Remember them??... I still have my "yellow-card" System /370 Reference Summary Gx20-1850-5 File No. S370-01 on my desk in front of me... I couldn't bring myself to throw it away... has all of the BCDIC EBCDIC(1) and ASCII conversions hex bin and dec, as well as extended neumonics, io control codes, 370 assembler instructions, control registers, and program status word breakdowns... whew... aaah, those were the days and thank goodness they are o v e r .....
BTW is it true the Hollerth punch card code was designed after a three martini lunch? beats me... but more than one system programmer has had a three martini lunch after dropping a stack of them onto the floor in front of the card-reader......... course, it never happened to me. ;-))
-- Kind regards, M Harris <><