Plagerism

Cliff_Johns · Jan 21, 2005

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

Cliff

California · Jan 21, 2005

( What do you call 1/2 of a byte? )

A Nyble!

What did I win?!

( Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? )

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 · Jan 21, 2005

( ( What do you call 1/2 of a byte? ) )

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 · Jan 21, 2005

"Jees, just how many old data dinks are on this site? I started in '65." 

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 · Jan 21, 2005

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 · Jan 21, 2005

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 · Jan 21, 2005

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 · Jan 21, 2005

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 · Jan 21, 2005

( OK... A little closer to 25 words:
For those that count in base 10, the decimal number 2 is hexidecimal value 10 or 0010 )

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 · Jan 21, 2005

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