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    Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Ray Sanders
   (...) ummm.. yes, I cut my teeth on 360/BAL then went promptly into 370/BAL and C. Do you remember what a POO was and what you used a green card for ? (eventually replaced by the yellow card IIRC). Ray (still has a box of 5081 cards somewhere) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) C??? that's not a proper MF language. PL/S (where you get to write your own I/O)... What, did you work somewhere OTHER than IBM?? (...) Poo, I forget what POO was.... but my yellow card got pretty tattered from looking things up. I actually (...) (23 years ago, 28-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Ray Sanders
   (...) POO .. 'Principles of Operation' probably with some subtitle about System/370. The book that was the definitive reference for the machine instruction set and registers. My memory implies that it had a butterscotch color cover. I had several (...) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Larry Pieniazek
   (...) Er, there's a somewhat less... sanitary... name for that particular color you know. and it even has something to do with POO. (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Ray Sanders
   (...) If were both thinking of the same thing, it has the initials BSB and has nothing to do with Pirate ships <g> Ray (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
   
        Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500 —Maggie Cambron
   (...) ...and everything to do with babies... Maggie C. (who saw enough of THAT color over a two year period to last a lifetime) (23 years ago, 29-Sep-01, to lugnet.off-topic.fun)
 

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