Re: A new chapter begins....

[Brad Stone <bvstone@xxxxxxxxx>]

Enjoy your retirement!

On Thu, Dec 30, 2021 at 10:53 PM Roger Harman <roger.harman@xxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Well, after 37 years on the midrange platform, tomorrow will be my last
> day.  Retirement awaits me.
>
> It's been a good run and I have so many to thank for their help along the
> way.
>
> Some of the old-timers may know of Howard Andrews.  He used to be very
> involved in COMMON.
> Howard gave me my first job in IT as a Jr. programmer.  He taught an RPG
> class at the local Community College.
> I enrolled in it as a lark - needed something in my schedule.  Eventually
> he hired 6 of us from one of his classes.  Started on a S/38 Model 4 or 6
> as I recall running Release 6.
>
> Bruce Fong was my first boss and, even though we were an RPG shop, taught
> me to program in C - which I had never seen before.
> He also taught me how to do comms between PC's, Cash Registers, S/38.  All
> using 3780 BiSync.  Learned about 5294's as well.
> BTW... My PC workstation had two floppy drives.  Had to swap out diskettes
> to run the C linker.  Wow!
>
> And, of course, everyone on this list, whether you know it or not, has
> helped me in some fashion.  I can't thank you enough.
> David...  Thank you so much for providing this wonderful forum.  It's been
> a godsend to my career.
>
> I'll still be hanging out and, hopefully, able to offer an occasional
> answer.
>
> Thank you one and all - I consider you to be the friends that I've never
> met.
>
>
> Roger Harman
>
> COMMON Certified Application Developer - ILE RPG on IBM i on Power
>
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