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I miss dump reading on reams of green-bar paper. The dump reading was done with a cardboard pamphlet that listed the machine instructions, arguments, address o
by RickJWagner 7y ago
I miss dump reading on reams of green-bar paper.
The dump reading was done with a cardboard pamphlet that listed the machine instructions, arguments, address offsets.
You'd find the hex abend on the greenbar, mark it up with a pencil, and use the machine instructions to figure out what went wrong (and the record that caused it).
In my business (banking) this was done sometime around 2 a.m. after you got called back to work by the night operators.
Ah, the good old days.
- codewritinfool 7y agoYes! Abend, lol.
- gHosts 7y agoWant nostalgia? Run this happy command... enscript --landscape --line-numbers --media=A4 --font=Courier7 --highlight-bars --verbose --highlight=c myFileName.c
- DrScump 7y agoMy systems were core to business operations (manufacturing shop-order control) and always ran between 2-4 AM. I quickly hardened the shit out of our interfaces so that we (a) wouldn't break and (b) had automatic workarounds for when feeding systems blew up. Oh, how my project leader loved me.