Plagerism

[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