In a message dated 6/8/2007 7:52:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Wow, what are you trying to do Bill? Make those of us who started in this business using punch cards feel like old geezers. I'm an old geezer, too. I started programming in October 1965. My S/360 experience began 4 months later. Where would we have been without good old Herman Hollerith? A few years ago I took my car to the Reed Brothers Dodge dealership in Rockville, Maryland for maintenance. I saw a plaque on the wall there that said many years earlier one of the Reed Brothers had been a business partner of Thomas Watson, Sr. in his brand new business machines venture. He apparently gave that up to own a car dealership. Wow. What a lost opportunity. The Reed Brothers Dodge place was, coincidentally, on the same road as, and within 6 miles, of IBM's Washington System Center in Gaithersburg, Maryland. Small world, and filled with old geezers. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL
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