. v1:w '' UN VF_~S TY c C LJ \1\ JU TE ~ C E ~T E \ N 0 T E s & 0 M M E N T s Voume 3, Number 12 Sepember, 1969 UNVERSTY OF MNNESOTA MNNEAPOLS, MNNESOTA TABLE OF CONTENTS ******************************* :Deck * Preparaion :* :Forran Shor Course : :cassroom Compuer Use : :i"jest BANK : :Library Changes & Addiions : ******************************* Deck ~reparaion-6600 Those programmers new o he CDC 6600 sysem wi be 9npeasany surprised he irs ime hey ry o run a deck ~repared wih an 029 keypunch. The ou~u ha hey receive wi be desined or he "circuar ie" since he sysem wi misinerpre a number o punches on he cards. The radiiona mehod o convering hese decks o 026 punches has been o empoy a keypunch operaor o punch direcy rom a source ising. However, he ucc is in he 9rocess o "?reparing a 9rogram o orce he compuer o do his diry work. A genera program wi soon be avaiabe on our subrouine ibrary, bu uni ha ime, a working deck can be obained rom: Mike Rebmann 230 Experimena Engineering 373-7746
+, Forran Shor Course The Universiy Compuer Cener is oering a shor course in Forran beginning Ocober 6h. There is no regisraion necessary or he course and no ees are charged. DATE: TME: ROOM: Consuan Schedue Ocober 5-24 (3 weeks) 4:15-5:00 PM Monday hrough Friday 221 Mechanica Engineering FROM THE ~!EST BANK Consuans wi be on duy in he /O room rom 9AM- 3:30 PM daiy. some quesion arises ha canno be answered by one o he reguar consuans, pease noe ha he UCC ~rovides a specia consuan on he Wes Bank wice a week. Conac Mike Skow in Room 24 Begen Ha on Tuesday and Thursday rom 1:30-3:30P.M. New Operaing Sysem On Monday, Sepember 29, he Wes Bank CDC 3200 began operaing under a MSOS 4.0 operaing sysem. The signiicance o his change o CDC 3200 users is documened in he MSOS 4.0 manua. The UOFM MSOS 4.0 operaing sysem diers rom he CDC reease in ha i has he abiiy o queue oupu ies and can communicae (via MPORT/EX~ORT) wih he CDC 6600 compuer. These addiiona eaures aow he mixed submission o 3200 and 6600 jobs. Thus, boh 3200 compuer users and 6600 compuer users have a onger running day since MPORT/EXPORT need no be shu down or oca running. The 6600 compuer user mus make he oowing changes in his deck srucure: Add he oowing cards 1) Pace his card in ron o a 6600 job ( 7 REMOTE,nnn 9 12nnn2108 (ou~u bin number) 2) Pace his card aer a 6600 job 77 88 Remove he BN card The end-o-ie card is opiona.
r 1 page 3 A ypica 6600 job srucure on he Wes Bank hen becomes: 3200 E F 6600 E F ~( ~--/--------------------------\6600 Job Source ) ~ JOBNAME,TO,CM... 6600 Job Card c=;;emote,oo Loca REMOTE Card ~res Bank Operaing Schedue s ep em. b er 29-0 c 0 b er 18, 1969 9AM OAM 3PM 6 M OPM Mondav <- 3200/6600 -> Tuesday PM 1<- 3200/6600 -.> Wednesday <:- 3200/6600 -;> Thursday.::;. 3200/6600-7 Friday PM i<e- 3200/6600 ~ Saurday.-::,;- 3200 ony ~ Aer Ocober 18, 1969 SAM OAM 3PM 6PM OPM Monday <:- 3200/6600 -> - Tuesdav PM 1<- 3200L6600 -:> Pednesday ~ 3200/6600 -;;>- Thursday <:: 3200/6600 -> Friday PM ~ 3200/6600 -> Saurday 1~- 3200 onv ->1 /O Cerk On or abou he 20h o Ocober, '{'Jes Bank Saion wi empoy a reguar /0 cerk. Quesions concerning he saus o he compuer missing jobs, missing oupu, conro card ormas or reaed subjecs shoud be direced o he /0 cerk.
1 i j i Oupu Bin Aocaions on he Wes Bank A he presen ime, bins 1-54 are avaiabe o a ;)rogrammers and bins 55-108 are reserved. n Ocober, wih he adven o our /0 cerk, reserved bins wi be aocaed saring wih he highes bin numbers and abeed as reserved. Any person wishing o reserve a bin (or series o bins) mus conac he /0 cerk. A reserved bins wi rever a he end o each quarer uness re-aocaed. A bins no abeed "RESERVED FOR.. " wi be avaiabe o any programmer. Correci~ These rouines GENREAD RK UMST500 NETrJCODE ie LBRARY CHANGES & ADDTONS have been correced as o Se~ember 29h: (o correc aa error message rom'genreed) (o correc erroneous code) (o correc MODE error} The ie NEWCODE which was ormery a Common ie under he SCOPE 3.1 sysem has been deeed rom he SCOPE 3.1.6 sysem. This is because he rouine FTNBN is now on he sysem ibrary. Programmers using binary bocking now need ony use a CALL FTNBN(arg,arg2) in heir Forran programs. (See UCC Noes & Commens, February, 1969, Vo. 3, No. 5). 1 i WE GOOFED Since ;)rooreaders (as we as machines) make errors, we have some correcions o he SCOPE 3.1.6 ediion o he newseer (Vo. 3, No. 11). 1) The ime imi on he JOBCARD is in decima seconds, no oca. 2) On he JOBCARD, he maximum ces o ECS avaiabe is 370 8 no 370000 8 (our ypis ikes O's) 3) On page 4, secion 3 (SPECAL CONTROL CARDS) he as ine shoud read: Repace SWTCH. By SNTCH, 1. or sr~ttch() 4} On page 7, in he diagram, he oca equivaen o 256K WORDS ECS is OOOK, no OOOOK (oo many O's again!) 5) Page 12, Secion 28: The ape numbers or he aj?picaions packages shoud read SN5xx, no SNSxx. For exampe, MMC woud be SN580. Aso, SN574 is SYMBAL, no SYMBOL.
The oowing is a shor index o si perinen inormaion rom :>as newseers: BMD manuas & programs: Voume 2, Number 7 Voume 2, Number 8 Voume 3, Number 11 BNARY BLOCKNG Voume 3, Number 5 Voume 3, Number 11 Conro Cards Voume 2, Number 1 Voume 2, Number 2 Voume 2, Number 6 Voume 3, Number 11 Dynamic Sorage Voume 3, Number 9 Exerna Tapes (X-mode) Voume 3, Number 10 FUN Compier Voume 3, Number 2 & Number 5 Faa Errors Voume 3, Number 2 JOBCARD Voume 3, Number 11 MMC Voume 2, Number 5 Magneic ape prices Voume 3, Number 8 Microim Usage--EBR Voume 2, Number 5 & Number 8 Voume 3, Numbers 3, 5, 6, 7, & 9 SNOBOL deck makeup Voume 2, Number 3 SCOPE 3.1. 5 Voume 3, Number 11 Time sharing Voume 2, Number 6 Tape reques cards Voume 2, Number 7 QW CK Q~JERY (inormaion Voume 3, Num.ber 8 rerieva sysem)
CLASSROOM NSTRUCTORS--~LEASE NOTE Any Universiy sa member conem~aing he use o he CDC 6600 compuer in reaion o cassroom insrucion shoud noe ha he~ conac James Foser (Exp. Eng. 217, 373-5757) o reques he compuer ime, and o arrange or specia handing o suden jobs. Saring Fa Quarer, sudens mus use s9ecia JOB CARDS and specia BN cards or heir decks. For insrucions, conac Dick Hochkiss, 217 Exp. Eng. (373-5756).