Oh my God! I used the yellow cards! Since when does the color of the card have an effect on the holes punched in it? btw...i first used JCL on an IBM 370/125 running DOS in the 70s, and i'm still coding JCL on an OS/390 box.
We still use IBM compatible 9 track tapes on the S390 where I work (and there is even an IBM 3525 card punch and reader. Standard open reels came in 2400 foot lengths (not 1,000...although longer ones eventually came out). They came in 3 densities, 800, 1600, and 6250 bpi. The earliest I remember seeing them was on an IBM 3410 tape drive,circa 1976, although we keep around a few old 3420s for vendor tapes. As far as sprinkling magnetic powder on a tape to get blocksize for a DD statement: that's crap. It'd ruin the tape or the drive. That's what IBM utilities are for (such as DITTO..way cool util).
Because someone is a moron, is it worth giving the person all the grief of having everyone who reads slashdot his name? From my point of view, it makes me more valuable at what I do, because of morons like him. It may be frustrating, when/if he is my boss, but really, turning all us geeks loose on him?
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Oh my God! I used the yellow cards! Since when does the color of the card have an effect on the holes punched in it? btw...i first used JCL on an IBM 370/125 running DOS in the 70s, and i'm still coding JCL on an OS/390 box.
8" SS SD floppies are in some 3274 type IBM controllers still ;)
We still use IBM compatible 9 track tapes on the S390 where I work (and there is even an IBM 3525 card punch and reader. Standard open reels came in 2400 foot lengths (not 1,000...although longer ones eventually came out). They came in 3 densities, 800, 1600, and 6250 bpi. The earliest I remember seeing them was on an IBM 3410 tape drive,circa 1976, although we keep around a few old 3420s for vendor tapes. As far as sprinkling magnetic powder on a tape to get blocksize for a DD statement: that's crap. It'd ruin the tape or the drive. That's what IBM utilities are for (such as DITTO..way cool util).
Because someone is a moron, is it worth giving the person all the grief of having everyone who reads slashdot his name? From my point of view, it makes me more valuable at what I do, because of morons like him. It may be frustrating, when/if he is my boss, but really, turning all us geeks loose on him? 002-01-09 03:02:26 Is it ethical to give out a spammer's name? (askslashdot,spam) (rejected)