[AccessD] Brain Fart regarding arrays

[Rocky Smolin]

I tuned a radio to some frequency where it would pick up RF from the 360.
I got so on startup I could tell if something was amiss. I also got stoned
and went in at night with the lights off just to watch das blinkenlights.

r

On Sun, Jan 8, 2023 at 2:06 PM John Bartow <jbartow at winhaven.net> wrote:

> IBM 360/40 - the first computer system I learned.
>
> John B
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> Yeah, that's how I controlled the disk drive; I can't remember why I
> needed to do that - seek specific sectors; but I read the IBM manual and
> figured it out. That was 1968. The University had just bought an IBM
> 360/40. Since I was the only one on campus who knew how to work the thing,
> I got to be the Systems Manager. My first paid job in computing.
>
> The year after I wrote my first commercial product using the school's
> resources of course. Delivered to customers on a deck of punched cards.
> Good times...
>
> r
> On Sat, Jan 7, 2023 at 10:41 PM Stuart McLachlan <stuart at lexacorp.com.pg>
> wrote:
>
> > IBM Channel Command Word?
> >
> >
> > On 7 Jan 2023 at 22:23, Rocky Smolin wrote:
> >
> > > P.S. Next stumper - The acronym CCW just came to mind. Do you know
> > > what that one was? What its function was?  Hint: you used BAL to>
> > manipulate it.
> > >
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