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Re: Punch Card Trivia
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
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Jerry Fochtman <[log in to unmask]>
Date:
Wed, 19 May 1999 07:12:59 -0500
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At 06:09 AM 5/19/99 -0400, Joe Geiser wrote:
>Hint from a long-time user:
>
>The card reader was used, just like it was on older IBM platforms such as
>the 360 and 370 models, to submit batch jobs.
>
>The answer did come out earlier - it was LDEV 10


Ah....least we forget the ':DATA/:EOD' cards as a means of reading into
the input queue a deck of data cards and giving the resulting file a name.
A program could then open the named file from the card reader device and
read it, consuming the file as it went.  Sorta like today's message file.



/jf
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