25 years ago on this day

[d000hg]

I started in 1982, retraining into IT and learning Cobol and RPG. Punched Tape and Hollerith Cards were the latest technology. Quite a common bug at this site was caused by a punch tape machine that failed to punch a hole sometimes.
The batch run was done by feeding these cards into a card reader. I remember one weekend when the boss had repunched the batch because the cards were getting dog-eared but unfortunately done it on the dodgy punch-machine. I got an emergency call from a very angry operator because the batch failed on the very first step !!

Oh, Cyberman, you're such a chad.

[BrilloPad]

Ah VAX/VMS with EDT and RMS indexed files and FDL and VAX FORTRAN with structured records and CLI - it was so much simpler then!

I had this extended EDT which had 2 clipboards. I wish I could get an editor with that feature now.

[ace00]

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

Anyone done that yet?

[Weltchy]

C on IBM Unix machines (RS6000??) in 1989. For a software house that failed in the 1990/1991 recession so I didn't even get salary that was due to me.
That was state of the art at the time. I still love vi. At £14K for a graduate starter outside London, I felt loaded.

My first IT Job was building these and installing AIX on them!!!! A six month contract

[Lockhouse]

Did you slash the zero or the Oh?

Slash the zero and top and tail the I. I also started on coding sheets and punched cards in the very early 80's. I used to operate a huge Rand\Sperry punch card machine that often broke down leaving me to operate the hand punch, one letter at a time....

[TimberWolf]

How many people here slash their sevens? We need a poll.

[ace00]

How many people here slash their sevens? We need a poll.

No, but I do cross my zeros

[ace00]

Nah.

I was setting the controls for the heart of the sun.

HTH.

Will you get there by the year 2525 ?