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It was developed in for the tape version of the IBM It was developed in Mokotoff was one of the compilers. Staff Interface ArchivesSpace. Skip to main content. Gary Mokotoff collection of IBM program listings. Identifier: CBI IBM Programming Systems.

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IBM Programming Systems Symbolic Programming Systems These systems permit programs to be written using meaningful names symbols rather than actual machine language.

Anyway it did its job, whatever it was, for weeks on end in the depths of the Schwarzwald, no matter how much mud we tracked in. Btw, E6 and E7 are enlisted pay grades. LT is Lieutenant. Warrant Officers are usually helicopter pilots. The enlisted men they were, indeed, all men , with one exception, were Specialists, not NCOs noncommissioned officers, i. Sergeants , meaning they had the same pay as sergeants without having to boss people around.

A good idea, I think: to promote people based on their skill and performance, letting them keep doing what they are good at without forcing them into management. Apparently, the Army abandoned this practice some years ago. Which was a simple sequential database on tape.

Each Hq office would submit info in card format which was put to tape as input to MRS. We could hardly program anything with just 8K ram. Every report had to be the same format. No individual calculations. We were barnstorming one day and Jodie Powers wondered if we could somehow put 1 or 2K of code on the tape with each block of data.

Then we could individualize each report. So I finally got it programmed and it work very well. We also programmed stuff for garrison work. I had all the conventional ammo in Europe. Spurling because he spoke German and I think Jerry Cook, had the marching orders program in case of war. I don't remember the other projects. We went around to a lot of Battalion headquarters begging for work.

I stayed in the Army for 20 years. I was fortunate to learn computer programming in the Army. Within a couple more years Bob too after just about 50 years. Out with the old and in with the new! Lessons from the Jungle by Gary H. Anthes Gary Anthes contributed the following on 30 March , "My own small contribution to the Appreciation Society and Autocoder Programmers Alumni Association is the attachment, a column I wrote for Computerworld a few years ago.

Anthes, Computerworld's Washington, D. Navy Lt. And when a buddy was bitten by a poisonous snake as he took cover in a bunker during a red alert, I decided to stay in bed whenever the rockets came in. But just before dawn on Feb. A rocket launched from somewhere in the Vietnamese jungle hit the U. Navy Supply Depot near Da Nang, miraculously landing on a stack of 6, anti-tank mines.

The exploding mines sent shock waves across the depot, flattening the data processing center where I worked. Secondary explosions continued for 13 hours. When I heard the mammoth explosion at my camp several miles away, I immediately thought of the gray case holding the five tapes that were updated each day and taken off-site in case computer processing ever had to be moved to the Navy's emergency facility in the Philippines.

But the case holding the backup data files wasn't in its familiar spot by my bed; I had forgotten to take it with me the previous evening. With visions of courts martial dancing through my head, I drove to the Supply Depot to help in the clean-up and recovery effort. Although the building housing the computer center had collapsed, the IBM computer and it's coterie of electro-mechanical punched card machines seemed more or less intact, although covered with tons of dust and debris. And the case holding the mag tapes was were I had left it, apparently unharmed.

Two civilian IBM engineers soon arrived on the scene, and if they slept at all over the next few days, it wasn't apparent. The computer was wheeled to an intact warehouse nearby, where Navy Sea Bees worked around the clock to install a raised floor and air conditioning. Thanks to these heroic efforts and to IBM's industrial strength vacuum cleaners, the equipment was cleaned up and working again within a week. Although the computer and its inventory control applications were critical to the Navy's mission of supplying combat troops, disaster recovery was executed so quickly that Navy brass elected not to send me to the Philippines with the backup tapes.

Thus, I escaped a court martial and never learned whether the explosions had jiggled the tapes' bits into alphabet soup. There are some lessons in all of this for today's data center manager, none of them having to do with Viet Cong rockets, anti-tank mines or poisonous snakes.

First, expect the unexpected. Exit the bus at Rockville Pike and Templeton Place. One can also walk. After exiting the station onto Chapman Avenue, turn left onto Halpine Road. Follow one block, cross Rockville Pike and turn right. Building is approximately three blocks north on Rockville Pike on the left. Get driving directions from your address.