Man I love you guys!!! Makes me feel like a noob all over again!
I started with TnT (Tubes and Transistors) in the military long ago, I feel your pain, especially with dropping the card stack... a small program, 2000+ cards, and a single hole that didn't punch all the way. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Edward Luna Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 2:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [hlds] re: Disabled Account Brings back some memories but I think I may go back a little further... My first job... a board wirer on electronic tabulating machines. My first programming job... 1401 Autocoder (predates IBM 360 COBOL). The IBM 1401 had core (not memory) which was cooled in a bath of oil. I think we had 64K or core in our 1401 Main Frame. No disks... everything was tape and punched cards... certainly no terminals. Our only way into the "Executive" (what the OS was called back then) in the 1401 was thru an ASR33 teletype. What a magnificent piece of junk it was... I think it was 110 baud... yup, about 10 characters as second. Seems like a lifetime ago, oh wait... it was... lol. -----Original Message----- From: Ook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [hlds] re: Disabled Account Yeah, still a young whipper snapper. I did, however, have the opportunity to work on some older military equipment. I graduated from 1960's era tube radar equipment to some old Sperry Univac systems. We used TI Silent 700 thermal printers (we don't need no stinkin' monitors) for i/o. And if I could have a dollar for every card I've punched.... <sigh> the good old days. And, oh oh oh, our hard drive! It was a CDC Hawk with a fixed 5MB hard platter! Man, it screamed, especially when the heads crashed, which happened on a regular basis. Back in those days, when you had a head crash, you cleaned it, replaced the heads, platter, and absolute filter, aligned the heads, and put it back into service. I could do that in less then an hour. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Luna" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2006 9:50 AM Subject: RE: [hlds] re: Disabled Account > ROFL... only 20 years? A relative newcomer hehehe. > There is something to be said for staying away from management > positions... > but the money is hard to ignore. > > -----Original Message----- > From: Ook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 17, 2006 11:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [hlds] re: Disabled Account > > > Only if you are successful at what you do :P > > Egads, and IT director. What company, how big is your department? Having > been a programmer for 20 years, I've never met an IT director (or any > manager for that matter) who's job I wanted <shudder>. > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlds
