Since we seem to be reminiscing, at my first job 20 years ago I had to convert a program written in some fancy Basic on an Epson PC to Microsoft Basic so it would run on the first Hewlett Packard PC. These HP PC's were not IBM compatible but ran a generic MS-DOS and MS-Basic with escape codes to control the screen. The PC's were great with touch-screens, but it was a nightmare using Basic and a database written by a fellow workmate. I later convinced them to start re-writing the program in MS-Cobol which had just been released and had an ISAM which was great. It allowed one index! They soon went bust after that. Terribly mismanaged.
My next job involved re-writing a system written in Dbase II to Dataflex on a TurboDos (Concurrent CPM) machine. I still support the same Dataflex application today but it's running on DOS/Windows. Ross. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Leigh Wanstead > Sent: Monday, 19 January 2004 11:09 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: RE: [DUG] [OFF-TOPIC] Fortran > > > >>May be we should all learn COBOL :). > > I did COBOL programming before. That was 6 years ago and I > worked as a > programmer analyst in Hitachi Consumer Pte Ltd for 8 months > in Singapore > fixing Y2K issues in mainframe. Some was JCL(Job control > language). That > was a nightmare to me. I am glad that I left that job. I will > not go back > to Cobol again, no matter how much will I get paid. :) > > Regards > Leigh _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ns3.123.co.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi
