25 years ago on this day

[sasguru]

i was a ...spotty oik.

Plus ca change.

[Cyberman]

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 !!

[RichardCranium]

Cyberman, you are an idiot.

I started in 1982, retraining into IT and learning Cobol and RPG. Punched Tape and Hollerith Cards were the latest technology.

COBOL.

The latest technology? Hollerith invented the punched cards a hundred years before 1982. Paper tape was on its way out by 1982.

Quite a common bug at this site was caused by a punch tape machine that failed to punch a hole sometimes.

That's not a bug, it's a hardware fault.


Do you know nothing about everything?

[Cyberman]

Cyberman, you are an idiot.

COBOL.

The latest technology? Hollerith invented the punched cards a hundred years before 1982. Paper tape was on its way out by 1982.

That's not a bug, it's a hardware fault.


Do you know nothing about everything?

It's a hardware fault that caused a 'bug' in the software !!

[BrilloPad]

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.

I remember when I was so impressed at my first job getting £5600 a year....

[sasguru]

Cyberman, you are an idiot.

COBOL.

The latest technology? Hollerith invented the punched cards a hundred years before 1982. Paper tape was on its way out by 1982.

That's not a bug, it's a hardware fault.


Do you know nothing about everything?

He wasn't very good at this IT lark. It's why he's been unemployed erm retired all these years.

[Cyberman]

I remember when I was so impressed at my first job getting £5600 a year....

My first full-time job paid me about 1000 quid a year as a banker which gave me the princely sum of net 47 quid in my first month.

[shaunbhoy]

so I didn't even get salary that was due to me.

These things even out sg. Look at how much they are giving you now for spending most of your working day coming on here and talking puerile nonsense from the retard perspective.

[shaunbhoy]

My first full-time job paid me about 1000 quid a year as a banker which gave me the princely sum of net 47 quid in my first month.

Yes, and you are now more of a "banker" than ever.

[Sysman]

25 years ago I was writing data analysis software on VMS using PL/I

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PL/I
http://www.iron-spring.com/prog_guide.html

Always liked PL/I. 25 years ago I was using COBOL on VMS. FORTAN et al came with the header files for calling system services; VMS COBOL didn't, so you had to write your own.