15 Jun
2011
15 Jun
'11
8:54 p.m.
Reino was an instructor at Cal Poly SLO when I was studying computer science
there in the 1970's.
He was a nice old guy. I learned 360 BAL from his class. I think he passed
away in 2006. If I'm
not mistaken I contributed to the writing of that book. I doubt he was a
nazi.
Paul
So my wife wanted to show me a book tonight. Turned
out it was one
of mine, she'd noticed something interesting.
System 360/370
Job Control Language
and the
Access Methods
by Reino Hannula
What's up with the Swastika on the spine of the book? It's made up
of little triangles, but it's definitely a swastika. Very strange.
16 Jun
16 Jun
10:32 a.m.
New subject: Reino Hannula
From: Paul Popelka
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2011 8:54 PM
Reino was an instructor at Cal Poly SLO when I was
studying computer science
there in the 1970's.
He was a nice old guy. I learned 360 BAL from his class. I think he passed
away in 2006. If I'm
not mistaken I contributed to the writing of that book. I doubt he was a
nazi.
My only computer-related class as an undergraduate was 360/370 assembler
programming (which had several prerequisites, but since I learned FORTRAN IV,
COBOL, and PL/1--not yet PL/I--in high school, and 360 assembler the summer
after I graduated, the insturctor waived those).
We used the first edition of Hannula's textbook. I still have it, packed
away in the storage locker. (For that matter, I still have my dusty decks
from that class. When we get a card reader going,
either a CR11 or one of
the ones on the Sigmas, I'm gonna do something with
them. ;-)
Rich Alderson
Vintage Computing Sr. Server Engineer
Vulcan, Inc.
505 5th Avenue S, Suite 900
Seattle, WA 98104
mailto:RichA at vulcan.com
mailto:RichA at LivingComputerMuseum.org
(206) 342-2239
(206) 465-2916 cell
http://www.LivingComputerMuseum.org/
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