Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a Selectric?)

[Nico de Jong]

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From: "Dave Dunfield" <dave04a at dunfield.com>
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Sent: Friday, December 30, 2005 6:26 PM
Subject: Re: Real Old School Programming (was: Re: Where to buy a
Selectric?)


>
> > At least, that's what I remember it is, and an abend dump is like a core
> > dump or crash dump on your modern system.
>
> It is - and if you don't know why it's called a "dump" you've never had to
> wade through one :-)
>
>
When we had our first exhibition in 1988 or so, there was a start-up company
called "Dump Data", where the attached the meaning of "low price" to "dump"
I dont think they sold a lot to the mainframe community.. :-)

Nico