To LUGNET HomepageTo LUGNET News HomepageTo LUGNET Guide Homepage
 Help on Searching
 
Post new message to lugnet.off-topic.funOpen lugnet.off-topic.fun in your NNTP NewsreaderTo LUGNET News Traffic PageSign In (Members)
 Off-Topic / Fun / 8190
8189  |  8191
Subject: 
Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.off-topic.fun
Date: 
Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:46:35 GMT
Viewed: 
239 times
  
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Larry Pieniazek writes:
In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Ray Sanders writes:
Do you remember what a POO was and what you used a green card for ?
(eventually replaced by the yellow card IIRC).

Poo, I forget what POO was....

but my yellow card got pretty tattered from looking things up. I actually
had a laminated one but it didn't work out. I had one I reduced on the
copier so I could keep it in my pocket when I went to meetings.

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 editions at one time, but discarded most of them a few years back. About
the time I realized that I would probably never go near a 'big-iron' box again.

Ray



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
 
(...) 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)

Message is in Reply To:
  Re: New MOC: 8 Wide EMD SW1500
 
(...) 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)

6 Messages in This Thread:

Entire Thread on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact

This Message and its Replies on One Page:
Nested:  All | Brief | Compact | Dots
Linear:  All | Brief | Compact
    

Custom Search

©2005 LUGNET. All rights reserved. - hosted by steinbruch.info GbR