Just stumbled upon this thread and can't resist a comment or two. In 1971 I went from "correspondence" training to 3 months "intensive training" at the College of Automation in Jacksonville FL... Yep, Now I know that was a pure scam, but I did learn how to wire accounting machines, code in RPG and even a bit in COBOL. When I finished, I was the top 5% of the whole class. Not that it meant much, but I didn't know any better at the time... With my certificates of "completion" and being the top 5%, I went out applying for a job. And I got hired to be a computer operator on an IBM 360/30! The rest of the story is probably boring, bur I have really enjoyed my life as an "original" geek and happy to be retired now, but still writing code for my own use.
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