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A blast from the past. UCLA had an S/360 model 91 that was "the campus computer" when I learned to program on it in 1975.

I still have a JCL book from that era somewhere in a box...

//GO.SYSIN DD *

DOO DAH

DOO DAH

(Edited: formatting)



I did a lot of stuff on that machine. One was an interactive processor so users could write their own simple programs to do whatever they wanted. It had numeric and string accumulators and numeric and string operators.

One program I wrote for it could take text and convert it to pig latin.

IIRC, the processor was about 12,000 lines of 360 assembly language.




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