NOPE - you guys aren't alone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I know this is OT, but I HAD to get my 2 cents in!

I started as a full-time programmer in March, 1964 on a 4K 1401. Moved 
up to the big boy - a 16K 1401 and wondered how I'd use all that 
memory!! Got to a 709, then a 7090, then a 7094 and thought I'd died & 
gone to heaven!

Even went to the IBM announcement of the IBM360 (and later, the 370) - 
how many of you youngsters can say that???

I feel that PIC programming in assembly is a LOT easier than a 1401, 
where you had only 3 DECIMAL (yes, pre hex) digits to represent up to 
16K memory (using zone "punches" over the units & hundreds digits). Got 
to be a royal pain.

I, too, don't particularly like banking on the smaller PICs - but even 
the mainframes like the 360 and 370 had banking issues - especially if 
you were a systems programmer working on large assembly programs (i.e. 
portions of the OS).

That's all I'm gonna say - making me feel ancient!
Dennis

John Nall wrote:

>John Ferrell wrote:
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>>>Soon going to ebay...
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>>http://dixienc.us/IBM1401Course.htm
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>It may be that you and I are the last two people in the entire universe 
>who have ever heard of  the "set wordmark" command, huh?  :-)
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