Great to see you here, Julian. I cannot claim "Senior" then. My first code was written in Fortran [I, but of course it didn't need a version number until II arrived] in May, 1958. It compiled on the IBM 704 at Boeing and failed on a divide-check. I was a 19 year-old Engineering Aide in the Transport Division, then in Renton, and the work was in wing loads analysis for the forthcoming Boeing 720. (My first foray into programming was, fortunately, unrelated to that task.)
My first-computer love was the IBM 650 though. I went from that onto a Remington Rand -> Sperry Univac -> Xerox career path, retiring from Xerox at the end of 1998 I don't write assembler or much anything else (except HTML and Powerpoint) these days, but I can't stay away. And I always loved open-source work, even before it was called that. - Dennis -----Original Message----- From: Julian Thomas [mailto:j...@jt-mj.net] Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 19:04 To: Open Office Apache list Subject: OT (was Question re/ using Open Office > On Jun 26, 2015, at 09:19, Richard Fox <rafo...@outlook.com> wrote: > > Looks like we've both been around the block a time or 2 - though I'm not the > "techie" that you are. My first experience was in the early 60s. Learned to > write Fortran on an old Philco 2000 while working in research for an > aerospace division of Ford. > I joined IBM in 1968 and although I was in sales I learned to write in > assembler, COBOL, ALGOL, PL1, APL, SIMSCRIPT (a simulation language), Basic > and on into the languages of the 90s. I started out in the '50s on Univac I, IBM 704/709, and Honeywell machines [D1000; H800, H400]. Joined IBM in '62 and went to work on microprogramming for the 360 line. Assembler, many machines; autocoder [1401 and 1410], APL [when I could get to a terminal with the right electric ball]. Retired in '93. > Because of my experience in research I was often able to do problem > determination as well or better than some of the best technicians. I went to > work for Amdahl in WA in the early 90s and a couple of other companies after > that. Worked with Gene at IBM in the '60s and again on a short consulting contract in the late '90s - he was still sharp then, although I've been advised that he now has advanced Altzheimers. > Finally gave it up. Got tired of working for and around idiots. Went back to > IBM in 2000 but gave it up for good after 6 months. It was no longer the IBM > that I had once worked for. Just another hack company as far as I was > concerned. Agree. — jt - j...@jt-mj.net "... one of the main causes of the fall of the Roman Empire was that, lacking zero, they had no way to indicate successful termination of their C programs."-Robert Firth (stolen from somewhere else) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@openoffice.apache.org
