v8dave
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</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!
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!