Reply to: Remember when...

[minestrone]

You old timers.

I feel old remembering when Java was a few hundred classes.

[BoredBloke]

Thats your cue to stand up and shout - "Shut the F up!" I do it regularly. It's very satisfying, although my colleagues look horrified.

Perhaps I would if I were not so easily replaceable. How hard is it to find somebody to read the web all day!!

[TykeMerc]

I started as a trainee operator 28 years ago. I used to change 200Mb disk platters (we had 5 washing machine drives!), change tapes, punch cards and vacuum out the line printer (remember line printers?). I remember when we got our first desktop and everyone on the floor below came up to look at it.

I remember SMD disk pack drives, I was a mainframe engineer many years ago.

Line printers with 164 column hammer banks, those took actual engineering skill to align so that the flight times were correct for each hammer.

1" Keystone tape drives and skewing the heads were fun

[Lockhouse]

Ah yes. Disk packs. Never had the multiplatter version.

The GA16-220 mini used cartridge drives with a fixed 5Mb platter & a removable 5Mb platter in a cartridge.

I rebuilt a cartridge once.

I started as a trainee operator 28 years ago. I used to change 200Mb disk platters (we had 5 washing machine drives!), change tapes, punch cards and vacuum out the line printer (remember line printers?). I remember when we got our first desktop and everyone on the floor below came up to look at it.

[cailin maith]

I remember when I could work with my ipod on. That was last year. Now they have decided to ban that. Concentrating is bloody hard with people talking tulipe around here

Thats your cue to stand up and shout - "Shut the F up!" I do it regularly. It's very satisfying, although my colleagues look horrified.

[BoredBloke]

I remember when I could work with my ipod on. That was last year. Now they have decided to ban that. Concentrating is bloody hard with people talking tulipe around here

[minestrone]

I remember going into my Dad's work in the 70s and the computer took up a whole room, no monitor, just a keyboard in the middle of the room and a printer.

[darmstadt]

Pah. This industry's being going downhill ever since ISAM displaced hashed indexing. The kids today have it too easy.

ISAM used hash tables which were used as indexes and ISAM was replaced by VSAM (Very Silly Access Method or VSAM ist grausam.)

[MarillionFan]

remember when they finally relaxed the 'no drinks or food' at the keyboard rule, and you had your first curry 'on the job'

yum yum

Disgusting.

Having a curry while having a shag. You have taken it to a new low.

[thunderlizard]

I can remember Sinclair Microdrives. Whooooosht clickety whoooooosht GRRRRRRRR!

[mudskipper]

remember when you had a keypad condom with the EDT keystrokes on.

[EternalOptimist]

remember when they finally relaxed the 'no drinks or food' at the keyboard rule, and you had your first curry 'on the job'

yum yum

[EternalOptimist]

remember when you first learned how to swap the buttons around on a mouse, and how you laughed like a drain when the nerd nearly bust a blood vessel

[RichardCranium]

I remember disk packs that were measured in megabytes, not tens of megabytes, which were top-loaded into a drive the size of a 'fridge.

And reel-to-reel tape drives. And the need to know different sorting algorithms according to the medium holding the data.

And the benefit of not just drawing a diagonal line across the top of the card deck, but of doing one in another colour in another direction.

Pah. This industry's being going downhill ever since ISAM displaced hashed indexing. The kids today have it too easy.

[MarillionFan]

Mice had a grotty little ball in the bottom to track movement

and monitors were 3 feet deep and weighed more than an anvil

Remember! REMEMBER!

I don't need to remember. U should see the tulipe equipment clientco has given me! A DESKTOP FFS!!!!