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Dan Yertzell wrote:

> How about B 41 001620 for Easycoder Assembler?

Vaguely remember that one......do you think the "1620" was just a coincidence
???  :-)


> COBOL compiles were 40 - B, 40 - B, Run - Run - Run!

Yes, now I remember having to enter the bootstrap command twice and the three
RUN button pushes.  Wasn't the first B40 to effectively "skip" over the tape's
header record with the actual first record of the boot loader being the second
record on the tape ?  As for the reason behind three hits on the RUN button, I
am a little bit rusty,  Was it pausing at various points in the load to check
sense switches for options ???

I *do* remember that the console typewriter would display "COMPILING PROGNAME"
when the COBOL compiler began it's work.  PROGNAME was your program's name as
entered on a control card at the beginning of the deck [separate from the COBOL
Program-ID in the Identification Division".

Also I seem to recall a program (overlay?) called something like ABAVPA010.
Was this the name for the executable on tape which began the COBOL compile ?
Seems like this was the name that you told the tape operating system to load &
go when you went to do a COBOL compile.

> Yeah I remember those too.  Our instructor used to threaten us with
> severe bodily harm if he ever saw us set the SYSTEM drive with PERMIT
> status.

Ah yes......PERMIT & PROTECT.  Wasn't there a big black rotary switch knob on
each tape drive to set this (along with the write protect ring, of course) ?


> One problem we had was the character set differed somewhat from that
> used by the IBM keypunch machines, so we had a chart taped to the wall
> behind each keypunch machine with stuff like this:
>
>                     IBM    =     Honeywell
>                      @     =         :
>                      %     =         (
>                      <      =         )
>
> etc.  That kept things interesting.

Sounds like the machine used the "old" character set mappings (as were usually
found on 026 keypunches) while you had the newer 029 keypunches with the newer
EBCDIC mappings.  Just a guess.


M. Baker
mba...@monmouth.com