Ha... I thought so! ;) Yesterday when I saw your tagline, I thought it looked familiar. As in the same one as Jim Marshall...
I too tried to get into "DP" while I was stationed at Crystal City in the early 70's. However, the Navy would have nothing of it. So I had to spend my own time after hours hanging out in the basement of the Pentagon learning from the DP night shift. They were a smart bunch, especially one guy in particular. Unfortunately, his name escapes me at the moment. He helped me quite a bit and gave me the Navy's blue DP book on Data Processing to study (which I still have) and also taught me how to wire boards. Fun times... It took me a couple of years after discharge to get my act together before I took my first real programming class. Just kinda a wondered into it. The rest, as they say, is history. While it was not always fun, the worse time was when I first learned the "pitfalls" of SMP V3 (notice no "E"), but I would not trade it for anything. Well, other than being rich of course. :) On Wed Jan 30 6:49 , 'Richards, Robert B.' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> sent: >Gary, > >I see that Jim has not responded yet, but I can assure you that he was a >Captain in the USAF. I get to look at the memorabilia in his office >almost every day! :-) > >You can add my name to the list of former USAF airmen that left military >service and went straight into computers as a career. I had actually >tried to cross-train into data processing while still on active duty, >but was denied because of a skills shortage in my specialty while >overseas (automatic flight controls/autopilot computers). Hard to >believe that was 30 years ago...seems like yesterday! Time flies when >you are having fun! > >Bob > >--------------------------------------------------------- >Robert B. Richards (Bob) >US Office of Personnel Management >1900 E Street NW Room: BH04L >Washington, D.C. 20415 >Phone: (202) 606-1195 >Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >--------------------------------------------------------- > >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [EMAIL PROTECTED]','','','')">[EMAIL >PROTECTED] On >Behalf Of Gary Green >Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 3:10 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: Job ad for z/OS systems programmer trainee > >You can include our own esteemed Mr. Marshall in that group! If I >recall, and I am certain he will correct me if I am wrong, he was a >Captain in the Air Force. > >His contributions to the various "tapes" were much read and I can >certainly say I learned quite a bit from reading his source code back in >the earlier-mid 80's. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
