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04-09-2020, 06:41 PM
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Enjoying Life
Join Date: Apr 2016
Location: Texas
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Guess you passed on the sale :/
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Too many bad memories 
Dropped a whole tray of cards and well ....(words not printable here) 
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04-09-2020, 07:02 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: Southern NM
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One of our more cruel initiations for new guys was to tell them this tray of cards was punched wrong, dump the bin of chads (or chips) out on the desk for them to sort into piles of 0 to 9, and give them lots of tape.......
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04-09-2020, 09:32 PM
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Join Date: Mar 2015
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I'm with all of you. Full time working is way behind me.
Spent most of my working time analyzing customer requirements and architecting a computer system to support it. Left the mainframe environment in the 70's and worked mostly with larger UNIX systems. Interesting times with all of the legal, redundant, and DR system requirements. Fun listening to everyone though.
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04-09-2020, 11:02 PM
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Enjoying Life
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Location: Texas
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Originally Posted by NMWildcat
One of our more cruel initiations for new guys was to tell them this tray of cards was punched wrong, dump the bin of chads (or chips) out on the desk for them to sort into piles of 0 to 9, and give them lots of tape.......
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Cold, but I like it 
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04-10-2020, 06:59 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: London, Kentucky
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I worked for Southwestern Bell starting in 1971 and when I moved inside I discovered that Operation, ‘one ringy dingy’, was trashing tons of punch cards. I made a request to pick up those boxes of cards weekly and by carting them to the recycler I made serious fishing tackle cash.
I don’t even want to remember all I learned about that programming in order to repair outages.
Travel safe
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04-10-2020, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Southern Illinois
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Never had the chance to work in Unix but jumped into various *nix flavors for my security work. It's a great OS and modern variations provide really good desktops. (Mint for ex)
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04-10-2020, 11:51 AM
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Just as confused as you
Join Date: Aug 2013
Location: south central Wisconsin
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Originally Posted by mad.dog
Never had the chance to work in Unix but jumped into various *nix flavors for my security work. It's a great OS and modern variations provide really good desktops. (Mint for ex)
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I never got into Unix though I do use a Live CD version of Ubuntu to recover data from failing Windows hard drives that refuse to work under windows.
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04-10-2020, 12:40 PM
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Site Team
Join Date: Sep 2014
Location: Northen IL
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Originally Posted by mad.dog
I did a semester of RPG, that was weird.
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I took 5 seperate RPG and AS400 classes over 2 semesters when I was in college. This was in the late 90s.
Have since forgotten most of it because i never used any of it.. 
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04-10-2020, 12:42 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Southern Illinois
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Never used my RPG either, but it was fun anyway, but the strangest of any of the programming languages I have been exposed to.
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Originally Posted by Iwritecode
I took 5 seperate RPG and AS400 classes over 2 semesters when I was in college. This was in the late 90s.
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04-10-2020, 01:42 PM
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RPG, also known as Random Paper Generator
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04-10-2020, 01:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2018
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Originally Posted by BandJCarm
You know, you're right. My new rate is now $500 an hour. And I am still willing to work for that only because coding in COBOL was more fun than anything else I ever did..........and man, I've done a lot.
FWIW, I don't think I'd spend much time trying to find documentation for obsolete programs (although we never wrote one that didn't have proper documentation). I'd just see what it was supposed to do, and write a new one, and trash that old one. Probably faster, cleaner, etc.
Course.......um.........that sorta makes my COBOL knowledge obsolete, huh?
LOL
SO, never mind.
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You're right about that...IF you can figure out the process a program performs, it was often better to rewrite. Problem was, some programs were so large and convoluted, a mortal couldn't trace what was going on. Remember the Alter Go-To statement? Sheer madness.
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04-10-2020, 01:54 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2013
Location: Between Pickles Gap and Toad Suck, AR
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Originally Posted by DES-1
You're right about that...IF you can figure out the process a program performs, it was often better to rewrite. Problem was, some programs were so large and convoluted, a mortal couldn't trace what was going on. Remember the Alter Go-To statement? Sheer madness.
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We almost never used Go-To. We used Perform exclusively. That made paragraphs pretty homogenous.
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04-10-2020, 02:41 PM
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Join Date: Jan 2013
Location: Space Coast of Florida
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Memories or what I have left of them... I was going to college at night and working full time in a 2 man consulting firm doing high speed (500 mb/s digital..lol now, but state of art then) designs. We got a contract to develop a gps for airplanes using the LORAN System. The processor we used required all the source code to be assembly. I just happened to be taking an assembly class at school (Rollins) so the prof let me do my assembly code at work. At the end of the semester I took in a stack of printed out assy code and tried to walk him thru..lol. Got an A in the class.
Long time ago, 35+/- years ago... could not do it today, nor would I want to.
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04-10-2020, 03:11 PM
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2016
Posts: 621
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And there was APL...
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04-10-2020, 04:15 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2017
Location: SoCal
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Ever tried FORTH - the original write only language?
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04-10-2020, 07:43 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Southern Illinois
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That's about right :/
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Originally Posted by DES-1
RPG, also known as Random Paper Generator
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04-10-2020, 08:10 PM
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Join Date: Jun 2016
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Back in college, I learned to "program" reproducing punches and accounting machines. 
Learned IBM Assembler while working as a computer operator. Ran all my homework at work. While I was there, I got promoted to programmer....
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I am starting to think, that I will never be old enough--------to know better.
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04-10-2020, 08:40 PM
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Join Date: Sep 2019
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Talk about Y2K, we will go through that again in 2038 with unix
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04-10-2020, 08:49 PM
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Join Date: Nov 2019
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Quote:
Originally Posted by TowPro
Talk about Y2K, we will go through that again in 2038 with unix
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As long as it doesn't interfere with my 103rd birthday party, I'm not gonna care!
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04-10-2020, 09:07 PM
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Member
Join Date: Oct 2019
Location: Southern Illinois
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84th for me. I'm glad I retired before everything went to IPv6 heh
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As long as it doesn't interfere with my 103rd birthday party, I'm not gonna care!
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