The origin of “log in” (2011)

Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by protomyth on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:14PM (#7669989)

Around here, it was "wand in" and "wand out" because they used a light pen to read a barcode on their badge to access the AS/400. My Dad still says "wand in" when he logs into his Mac.

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by raverbashing on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @05:49PM (#7670150)

Talk about old-school computation

I've heard some people use the term "Abended" for a crash, because it was an "ABnormal END" - Abend

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by jessaustin on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @10:17PM (#7671212)

The first time I heard the word "abend", I asked the speaker what it meant. He couldn't really answer: "you know, abend!" Eventually I got the sense that it meant "crash", but it seemed like some crashes met his unarticulable criteria and some did not.

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by meric on Wednesday April 30, 2014 @01:03AM (#7671707)

Segmentation fault = abended. Python program crash with stack trace = not abended?

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by erbo on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:47PM (#7670422)

And, from the Jargon File, the joke was that this is what happened to jobs at the end of the day because the operators would shut off the computer before they went home at night, so it originates from the German Abend (evening).

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by mixmastamyk on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @06:02PM (#7670213)

I believe the term is much older, but it always reminds me of good ol' Netware from the 90's.

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Re:The origin of “log in” (2011) by brc on Tuesday April 29, 2014 @11:15PM (#7671400)

Yeah, I used to use that all the time. 'System xyz is showing an abend'.

I had totally forgotten the term until now. Think I might throw it around a bit, see who knows what I'm on about.

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