I remeber from IBM 360/370 assembler card deck, but since MPE II(77)
I use always use 264X terminal and SPL. I was so cooool back then.....
only 256K memory Series II upgrade from 192K, because COBOL would
not work with 192K memory. RTE & PDP only run Fortran.....

Cheers
Peter C.

Ken Winslet <[log in to unmask]> wrote in message
news:F4B1826B1A21D211AEC5006008207AF4011F315B@dogbert.csillc.com...
> How many other people started  programming  in assembler punching cards
and
> loaded them into the harper?
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Thursday, May 20, 1999 10:56 AM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Punch Card Trivia
>
>
> Winston Kriger ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> >Anyone remember PTAPE?
>
> I got my first job at HP because of PTAPE! Back in '86 (has it really been
> 13
> years?) I was trying to upload my resume to a friend at the HPRC had
having
> trouble with Reflections file transfer. I was desperate, so used the
:PTAPE
> filename command to accept a flat file; then used A>\COPY RESUME.TXT >
COM1:
> (or something similar from DOS). Then I echoed a Control-Y to end the
PTAPE,
> texted the file into EDITOR & cleaned it up.
>
> My how things have changed in 13 years!
>
> Rat
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