Tom Horsley wrote:
On Fri, 04 Apr 2008 09:45:16 -0400
I seem to recall they paid some fantastic sum of money for an advanced system that would let you keep your card decks on disk and edit them and submit the jobs from the disk copy - no one used it, the editor was so awful - real cards worked much better.
There were a couple products which did this. I'd used both of the main products at one time or another. The one I used most was PanValet, if I recall correctly. It was a reasonable step up from keeping boxes of cards on the shelf. Which always seemed to have several versions of the desired program, none of which matched the executable on disk. The editor was primitive, but adequate. I worked as Systems Programmer for a well-known Chicago magazine publisher, maintaining HASP/MVT or JES2/MVS, I don't recall which. The applications folks had purchased PanValet and were using it. I suggested to the Systems Manager that we use it as well. Well, if the Applications Manager liked something, the Systems Manager was sure to hate it. And vice versa. There was an open position for Director above both of them and both wanted the position. So I ended up listening to the perils of depending on disks for our precious sysgen decks and how card decks were much more dependable. I guess they were much more valuable than our accounts payable or subscription files. -- Michael Eager eager@xxxxxxxxxxxx 1960 Park Blvd., Palo Alto, CA 94306 650-325-8077
