Reply to: What is the biggest change to working in IT since you started your career?

[Platypus]

Computer porn used to look like this.

I remember that very one!

[eek]

Computer porn used to look like this.

technically that is still computer porn, the difference is that that used to be the only type of computer porn and now slightly more is available...

[TheFaQQer]

Computer porn used to look like this.

[mudskipper]

Computer porn used to look like this.

[eek]

Especially USENET:

alt.binaries.boneless
alt.binaries.slack
alt.religion.kibology
alt.sex
alt.sex.bondage
alt.sex.stories
alt.slack
alt.sysadmin.recovery
alt.tasteless
alt.usenet.kooks

I think a lot of those have just migrated to a website or 2...

[darmstadt]

The interweb used to be so exciting.

qh

Especially USENET:

alt.binaries.boneless
alt.binaries.slack
alt.religion.kibology
alt.sex
alt.sex.bondage
alt.sex.stories
alt.slack
alt.sysadmin.recovery
alt.tasteless
alt.usenet.kooks

[quackhandle]

The interweb used to be so exciting.









qh

[darmstadt]

Remember I could fit 6 on each arm, Beefcake!

Only 6? Wimp. I've still got one at home with all my stuff on it from way back when. I even have a parallel channel card which fits in a server to connect one of these tape drives to Unix and the great big fat bus and tag cables too (I also have ESCON and ISA cards lying around.) Actually the best thing about them was the cleaning fluid for the drives, mmmmm....

[CoolCat]

Remember I could fit 6 on each arm, Beefcake!

My mate was asked to write a program to "demonstrate" that the mag tape drive was working.
He got it to speed up to different speeds, slow down, speed up again, take the reel all the way to the end, and slow down and speed up in random combinations spooling the tape back again. He got fab reviews from his manager for a job well done. It didn’t actually read or write any data to the tape though, so as a test the drive was working it was completely useless.
Happy Days.

[CloudWalker]

Remember I could fit 6 on each arm, Beefcake!

[Sysman]

Here be some switches



The blinking lights represented CPU activity and produced pretty patterns,

[mudskipper]

Real computers have buttons (especially big red ones), knobs and dials:



Actually that's a 3705 which is a Front End Processor (FEP) but looks very similar to the 360-370 range and was used primarily for networks but was still a computer in its own right. I remember programming the bastard

And switches. Don't forget the switches.

[darmstadt]

ALLOC TRACKS

6 digit line numbers

That certainly takes me back a few years.

This is a new one on me:

"CAPS mode changed from OFF to ON as the file has upper case data"

'cos we didn't have lower case keyboards on our mainframe

Legacy software: Stuff that works reliably.

Real computers have buttons (especially big red ones), knobs and dials:



Actually that's a 3705 which is a Front End Processor (FEP) but looks very similar to the 360-370 range and was used primarily for networks but was still a computer in its own right. I remember programming the bastard

[Sysman]

Very much so. There's a Whiter Shade of Green, Do Blue Men Sing The Greens, Pinky and Greeny, The Yellow Green Grass of Home, Green Empathy Sailing in Turquoise, Green Green but I'm not too enamored with the Red version:

ALLOC TRACKS

6 digit line numbers

That certainly takes me back a few years.

This is a new one on me:

"CAPS mode changed from OFF to ON as the file has upper case data"

'cos we didn't have lower case keyboards on our mainframe

Legacy software: Stuff that works reliably.

[CoolCat]

Obviously the technology has advanced tremendously over the last thirty or so years but the contract market will never recover from the offshoring and giving out visas and passports willy-nilly for onshore Indians.

Nick Clegg is currently on tour in India. Here are a couple of quotes from him today.

"Good days are coming. Britain is ready and able to help build that. India is
our biggest G20 investor and UK has the expertise and investment capacity that
can create the best jobs for India's young population,"

"India's entrepreneurs can expect to benefit from UK's flexible tax regime," he
said, adding that "every UK business group wants to work with India".

Britain will help build India's good days: British Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg - The Economic Times

WATCH: A net migration target “makes no sense”, says Clegg | Conservative Home

Clegg in India saying that ICT work visas for IT staff are "too restrictive" not restrictive enough more like.

The guy is a traitor.