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Subject:
Survey: When was the being of the HP3000?
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
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Craig Lalley <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Mon, 15 Jun 2009 15:51:41 -0700
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--- On Sun, 6/14/09, Walter J. Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:


--- On Sun, 6/14/09, Walter J. Murray <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> 
> Me too.  I helped convert an IBM S/3 site to the first
> HP-3000 in San Diego County, CA.  They had some RPG, but a lot of
> FORTRAN.  I converted their FORTRAN payroll system.  It was mostly
> straightforward, except for some differences in floating-point 
> precision.  
> 

Walter,

My first job out of college, circa 1982, I worked from Union Oil Company, Chicago Refinery.  We also had a payroll system written in Fortran.  The data files were in binary to save space.  All years were written with two digits.

Since the binary files were, well binary, we could not read them, we had a program that would read the binary files and produce ASCII output.

It makes me laugh when I see XML files.  

-Craig

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