17 Sep
2013
17 Sep
'13
6:15 a.m.
Great information everyone -- thank you!
I only looked at two of them, and they only had blank disks in them (well,
disks with no labels). I wouldn't expect there to be labels on them in
any case if they were used for data. I can check the other 8 and make
sure there are no masters in them. I didn't try dumping the disks to see
if there is any data on them.
There are a couple people interested purchasing these. I can bring them
to VCFMW, and we can haggle/trade, or whatever. I might keep two of them
because they are neat. If you are not going to VCF, and want to buy some,
shoot me an e-mail with an offer.
Garrett Meiers
www.linkedin.com/in/theunixguy
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 AM, Chuck Guzis <cclist at sydex.com> wrote:
On 09/16/2013 10:35 PM, Eric Smith wrote:
While it's quite possible that they may have seen more use for RPG-II and
later, they were definitely general-purpose and were also used for COBOL
and Fortran.
The ones that I've seen have been strictly data--no programs, just lots
and lots of EBCDIC data.
Probably used by many installations as backup only.
--Chuck