[ale] Us Old Fossils :)

[Vaidhyanathan Mayilrangam]

What are you folks talking about.. I am still using COBOL on a IBM maniframe,
submitting batch jobs using JCL and everyone around me is 40+ :)

Vaidhy

On Wed, Jun 28, 2000 at 04:52:50PM -0400, Thompson Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Danny Cox wrote:
> 
> > All,
> > 
> > On Wed, 28 Jun 2000, Kenneth W Cochran wrote:
> > > Heh, not so fast there, bro'  :)
> > > I'll see that & raise you: 110 (with Fast option to 300 :), acoustic
> > > coupler...
> > 
> > 	Actually, my first programming course at Tech involved FORTAN IV 
> > and punch cards (024 AND 026).  This wasn't programming on the bare metal,
> > but it was pretty primitive by today's standards.
> 
> <<snip>>
> 
> Is this a private brawl - or can we throw relatives in as skeletons? 8-)
> 
> I'll see your 110 modem and raise you with a programer who has yet to make
> sense of macro assembler. (Seriously, he predates the concept of OS unless
> I'm grossly mistaken.) Most of his work is supposed to be in a museum (a
> great place for fossiles...)
> 
> I'm not entirely sure of the other one, but I think his work dates back to
> the end of drum memory for core. I gather that the massive 4k core memory
> _really_ rocked as state of the art. Rocked the neighborhood, the whole
> building...
> 
> (I'm a little juvenile here: I started futzing with computers with DEC's
> PDP-10 in graduate school, at the end of the product life no less. Long
> after they learned to deny a print job of page feeds on the line
> printers...since they printed a line or  ejected a page at about the same
> speed.)
> 
> 
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> You just might be a chemist if -
>     you wonder just _what_ the lubricant
>     in that condom is made from...
> 
> Thompson Freeman    tfreeman at digichem.net
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