RE: Fun on Friday.....For all the older programmers on the list

[Rich Duzenbury <rduz-midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 2006-02-13 at 08:56 -0600, DMunro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I just did my age & it is 111111 & I have been in this line of work for
> 101000 come June (6/6/66) - what a nice first day in Data Processing,
> never really looked at that date.  Yes it was punched card equipment &
> 360's with & without disk's & S/3 Mod xxx's & S/23(DataMaster) & IBM's
> first "luggable" the 5120 & S/34 & S/36 & AS/400.  The only one I missed
> was the S/38.
> 
> First language was IBM 1401 Auto Coder at the M&I Bank in Milwaukee,
> Waterloo BASIC for the 5120 & S/23 & various iterations of RPG since
> then.
> 

I haven't been around that long.  I started hammering on Apple II in
about 79 and started writing professionally on System/38 the summer I
graduated high school.  I'm x'37AE' days old, so very nearly over the
hill.

Regards,
Rich