Re: text file from Linux to windows.

On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 06:54:42PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
2008/5/30 Russell L. Harris :
I speak of the days of Fortran-II running on an IBM 1620. Back then,
it often was necessary to load the compiler (another deck of punched
cards) before loading the application.

It must have been fun to watch someone play pickup 500 and put them
all back in order again.

IIRC, each card had a sequence number. I don't know if they had
card-sorter machines.

That was the thing, every function to apply to a set of cards was a
different machine.

However, I'm of the opinion firmly that the lessons and skills learned
in those times which became the mainframe culture gives rise to a
different type of sysadmin than unix does. Even in the same company.
I've known IBM people and the AIX types are fundamentally different than
the (now) Z/OS types. Unfortunaly, I haven't collected enough quarters
[1] from them to join the ranks.

Doug.

[1] from the famous joke "here's a quarter kid, go buy yourself a real
computer".



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