Reply to: 25 years ago on this day

[ace00]

Nah.

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

HTH.

Will you get there by the year 2525 ?

[ace00]

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

No, but I do cross my zeros

[TimberWolf]

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

[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....

[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

[ace00]

Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play.

Anyone done that yet?

[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.

[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.

[MPwannadecentincome]

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!

[Sysman]

£1500 /year for me... £30/week... dear dead days beyond recall.

I think my first "proper job" paid £2500 a year, but I had to make the leap from weekly pay with paid overtime to monthly pay without paid overtime. It took a long time before I could afford to buy another car.

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.

[OwlHoot]

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.

£47 quid a month?!

Did you sit at a tall desk writing entries in a ledger book with a quill pen?

[bobhope]

C on Sunos 4.

15 years coming up for me soon. Aggh, how did that happen?

[TimberWolf]

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...

[sasguru]

More of a banker than Sir Fred the shred. At least I have a banking degree.

What's the exact title of this degree?

[Cyberman]

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

More of a banker than Sir Fred the shred. At least I have a banking degree.