AWS precursor

Let’s say it’s 1975, and you have a mountain of data (2 megs) to process, and a heap of cash. Whom do you call to run your Cobol? Your local airline, of course!

Excerpt:

IBM 360/195 for only 50 cents a SECOND

Guaranteed Turnaround! 2meg; 2314’s – 3330’s – 3420’s
OS/MVT
HASP/RJE
MPSX-GPSS-PMS-SSP-CSMP
Ans Cobol, Fortran G, G1, H, Assembler F & H, PL/1 F and PL/1 Optimizing and Checkout Compilers.

Our typical customer is knowledgeable in OS; has good working knowledge of JCL, Utilities and the functions of the compilers/assemblers he uses.
[…]
Call or Write
UNITED AIRLINES

Courtesy of a yellowed copy of Computerworld my dad found among his things. I noticed Google has scanned a lot of old issues but I couldn’t find this one in their archive.

No, I don’t remember those days.