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| From | sidd@situ.com (sidd) |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.folklore.computers |
| Subject | Re: OT: A&P supermarket bankruptcy |
| Date | 2015-07-28 02:27 -0400 |
| Organization | Little |
| Message-ID | <mp77d1$2do$1@Lazarus.situ.com> (permalink) |
| References | <b3635fc2-2502-4eac-a543-2a1c34758735@googlegroups.com> <acee7204-d454-4352-88d1-4ddbb25000e5@googlegroups.com> |
In article <acee7204-d454-4352-88d1-4ddbb25000e5@googlegroups.com>, Mike Albanese <allegrippus@gmail.com> wrote: > > >I worked for an A&P division in west-central PA as my first "real" job afte= >r college. There was some recession going on in the 1970's, so I decided to= > grab an available "EDP" operations job at A&P rather than wait for an entr= >y-level programmer opportunity to open up someplace else. After all, A&P wa= >s established, well-known, and would be around for a long time, right? :-)= >=20 > >There were three operators, one for each shift, and we cross-trained and ro= >tated weekly (nasty!). Configuration was a small System/360 with card reade= >r, line printer, and three 2311 disk units -- 25MB each (later upgraded by = >IBM to 50MB with the ol' "head activation" trick). Computer room was a rais= >ed platform, glass-walled affair where everyone could look in and watch us = >continually changing disk packs, printer forms, etc. And management could v= >erify that we were actually working, ha. But we did have the benefit of the= > only modern-looking room in the entire building, as well as our own huge E= >DPAC air conditioner alongside the back wall. No programming (other than JC= >L setup) was done at the division level. Instead, object decks were prepare= >d and sent out from the main office in Piscataway, NJ. > >We polled orders during night shift when stores were closed and phone rates= > were cheaper (Ma Bell at that time). The 360 would initiate an autodial to= > each store and, if the store manager had set up his MSI handheld unit prop= >erly, it would answer and transmit. Quite often there would either be line = >noise or the remote unit would not respond, requiring retries. A few store = >managers became notorious with us operators for habitually not having their= > units ready, thereby getting us into hot water with management because ord= >ers to the warehouse were being delayed (blame the little guy, yeah!). > >Usual morning shift was an hour or so verifying and cleaning up store order= >s (from the nightly polling log) and then printing pick lists for the wareh= >ouse. We'd also transmit orders to the Ann Page division in Horseheads, NY = >and then move along to billing and whatever business applications to be run= > for that day. Afternoon shift concentrated on compute-intensive tasks, lar= >ger reports (gross profit, etc.), and daily backups. > ... thanx sidd
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