Plagerism

[Cliff_Johns]

I would also point out that 1 + 1 > 2 for large values of 1.

Cliff

 

[California]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( What do you call 1/2 of a byte? )</font>

A Nyble!

What did I win?!


</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? )</font>

Interim chief, DP Branch, CSU-Sonoma summer 1968. (More precisely, the keypuncher quit leaving this $1/hour student temp as the only staff.)

Bought my first pc (TRS-80 Mod 1 level 2) in 1978 and actually used it at work to run statistics; first online with a 150 baud modem about 1983.

 

[Egon]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( ( What do you call 1/2 of a byte? ) )</font>

During the storm either the top or bottom plate made it's way overboard when the alimentary canal opening was purged.

Egon /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

 

[Phils]

<font color="blue"> "Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? I started in '65." </font>

I remember learning and programming with Fortran on rolls of punched paper tape in about '68. I remember moving to the state of the art (at least in the aerospace field I was in) with IBM keypunch cards, which made it MUCH easier to find and correct programming mistakes. I left computers in '77, didn't touch one again until Windows 95. Wow, there was much that had changed in the interim.

So now I find that my favorite forum is populated with a bunch of ex techno geeks. Must be another reason it's my favorite forum.

Phil

 

[JJT]

I punched cards in a Fortran class in 1980. Been making a living in IT since 1983. My kids are 11 and 12, both love computers and technology, but with the push to outsource and offshore, I cannot see them making a decent living in IT in 15 years. I work for a fortune 5 company and we outsource all of our technical work with 80%+ being offshore.

 

[MadReferee]

I developed, and then managed, operating system software for a large, now defunct, mini-computer company for over 15 years back in the 70's and 80's. My speciality was the I/O subsystem specifically device drivers. I have forgotten more about disk drives that most people will ever know, or want to know. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[Barton]

I'm beginning to see a trend here!

Old data processors never abend; they just fade away....to tractorbynet! /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

First language ALC, COBOL 68, 74,... FORTRAN, JCL, ADABAS, Natural, CICS and several other weird sounding thangs. I am quite happy to be retired!!!

 

[Cliff_Johns]

My first job at Bell Labs was writing IBM 360/370 assembler code and the associated JCL for one of the first graphical circuit schematic entry tools which ran on a tektronix 4012 flash-refresh tube. But a lot of you guys got me beat. I never had to flip the front panel switches to enter my program.

Cliff

 

[frank_f15]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( OK... A little closer to 25 words:
For those that count in base 10, the decimal number 2 is hexidecimal value 10 or 0010 )</font>

heck i knew that!!! /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif what the heck language are you guys talking? /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif

 

[JDgreen227]

Back around late 1977 when my employer began using data processing equipment, a co-worker transferred over to their operations and he tried to convince me to take an entry-level position that I qualified for, thus getting my foot in the door. I'm sure he meant well but I was positive at the time that computers were just a fad, so I declined.

Which is why I drove a truck and swung a hammer for the next 25 years while he kept stepping up the ladder further and further.

However, I did something right...I married a woman who went to work in the DP operation and she kept stepping up the ladder herself... /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[v8dave]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? I started in '65. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gif )</font>

Well, I had a class on computers in 1966 and in it did my first Fortran programming with card punches. By 1969, I was an I/O programmer specializing in communications. By the late 1970s, I had an e-mail address on my business card and we had to fight the company to get it on.

An e-mail address on your business card was a "secret handshake" through the 1980s and into the very early 1990s. Only those in the know knew what it meant and therefore knew you were in the business.

Ancient Chinese curse: "May you live in interesting times." And, boy we sure have!

 

[Egon]

Frank:

It don't matter how them fellows build their own language it's still just a yes or no . /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

Egon

 

[jinman]

</font><font color="blue" class="small">( Well, I had a class on computers in 1966 and in it did my first Fortran programming with card punches. )</font>

About that same time, I graduated from high school and went right to work for Texas Instruments in their coporate data processing department as a controls clerk. I ran card punches, interpreters, sorters, and printers. Later, I did all the sales and billings reports for TI's entire semicondutor division. For a kid just out of high school, I was living a dream. Heck, I might have been able to move up and run the IBM 1401s except for one small detail.

I kept that job for over a year until Uncle Sam decided he needed me. If I had been really smart, I'd have kept more hours in school and not gotten my draft notice. /forums/images/graemlins/shocked.gif I joined the US Navy when it was just moving into digital computers. Most weapons systems were still partly digital and analog computers. Our missile system had a MK119 computer that was full of synchros, resolvers, and summing networks. It took over five years to convert to UNIVAC 1219 digital computers. Wow! 16 kbytes of ferrite core memory and digital logic cards with discrete components, one J-K flip-flop on a single card. /forums/images/graemlins/smile.gif

 

[BXMMCC]

"Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? I started in '65."
I started in on computers in 1956 after 3 years in aviation electronics on a B17, AKA PB1G! That computer was about 40 feet long, 3 feet deep, about 7 feet high - 2 transistors and thousands of vacuum tubes.

 

[Michigan_Mike]

That used to be the case, but now with "quantum computers", it coud be yes, it could be no. It just depends on who you are. /forums/images/graemlins/confused.gif