On Fri, 2007-02-23 at 17:32 -0400, Clark Morris wrote: > My only computer course in college was on an IBM 650 with a 2000 word > drum and vacuum tubes. Most of my learning was OJT plus being sent to > some IBM courses. My personal opinion is that the universities have > bamboozled the business community into believing that they really > train people for running data centers.
For me it was a (card based) CDC 6400 in Uni. First job was trainee IBM systems programmer. So basically it was useless re technical issues. Back then grads were hired (and payed more) presumably because we had been taught to think, not that we had been taught what to think. And in fact most of my year went into retail trainee management - at the info sessions, the point was re-iterated. They didn't care what course you had done, so long as you had shown the commitment to finish it. I have my doubts any of the above applies today. Shane ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
