Originally posted by zeitghost
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Originally posted by expat View PostDid you slash the zero or the Oh?
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Originally posted by sasguru View PostC 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.
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Originally posted by MPwannadecentincome View PostAh VAX/VMS with EDT and RMS indexed files and FDL and VAX FORTRAN with structured records and CLI - it was so much simpler then!
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostI 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 !!
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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!
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Originally posted by zeitghost£1500 /year for me... £30/week... dear dead days beyond recall.
That job also brought the first insult from the tax man. My weekly paid job gave me a better tax code to account for the cost of "industrial work clothing" (boots, jeans, donkey jacket), but I lost that for the "privilege" of knackering suits by wearing them to work.
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Originally posted by Cyberman View PostMy 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.
Did you sit at a tall desk writing entries in a ledger book with a quill pen?
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C on Sunos 4.
15 years coming up for me soon. Aggh, how did that happen?
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Seeing 2001 A Space Odyssey the other day, A. C. Clark seems to have been at least 100 years out. E.g. A Moon base, mission to Jupiter, AI machine capable of singing Daisy, Daisy...
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