12 Dec
2012
12 Dec
'12
3:53 p.m.
On 12/12/12 3:27 PM, Terry Stewart wrote:
I found this clever and amusing. (-:
At a superficial level, done by someone who never had to
user a batch system.
- where is the JCL? You don't get a 'command prompt' from a keypunch
- all but the smallest 360s had DASD
you would have never done a data-base query to tape
and even if you did..
- a 9 track tape was MUCH faster in use than that
The operator interaction with the program was pretty weird.
Maybe whoever created this animation didn't realize you didn't
run your own program from the system console of a 360.
How would the operator know how to answer the 1,2,3 option printed out?
and
shouldn't pushing the 'reset' just ABEND with a core dump? :-)