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From: vallor <vallor@cultnix.org>
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Subject: IBM 5120 (was: Re: Find "py.exe" & copy it to "Python" (flat, no
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Date: 27 Jun 2024 05:56:43 GMT
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On 26 Jun 2024 23:27:55 GMT, rbowman <bowman@montana.com> wrote in
<le3mfrFgonvU1@mid.individual.net>:

> On Wed, 26 Jun 2024 14:06:52 -0400, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
> 
>> Anyway, Wikipedia can be used to get a quick handle on a topic, and an
>> easy link to the basics. But one needs to read the literature for a
>> more complete story.
> 
> I use Wikipedia references quite a bit as a quick overview of a subject
> and even kick in during their fund drives. Something like
> 
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_5120
> 
> is non-controversial and accurate.

I think this is the system I first has a paying job programming.  The 
system I remember had 3 "partitions" that could run 3 different programs 
simultaneously, and came with a DE/RPG II compiler, which I used
to write software for a Farmers Insurance agent.

Sure beat my previous job at Burger King!  This was at the end of
High School, and a bit past graduation.

Compiles took forever though...I remember starting a
compile, setting a wind-up alarm clock, and napping
for 90 minutes while the thing cranked along at a snail's pace.
The printer would output each line it was compiling...maybe one
every 10 seconds, iirc.  (This was 44 years ago!)

I don't remember the system having BASIC though.

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