Powerhouse and my personality disorder.
Joe Boyle
atla38@dsl.pipex.com
Fri, 22 Apr 2005 22:32:12 +0100
I am splitting my sides after reading enough to create even an image of
where this might be heading - for which many thanks :)
Presumably with only 4K they were able to logon - which verified that if
they had more memory - the 'whole computing thing' might be worth pursuing
:)
Regards, Joe.
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[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Guy Werry
Sent: 22 April 2005 21:53
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.
I can't top that, although I did talk to an old-timer who had been in
computers since 1958. The first machine he worked on had 4K. They used to
diagnose memory problems by turning all of the memory on and then turning
the lights in the memory ROOM off, walking in and looking for burned-out
tubes! (I think that the 'valves' term might be British).
Guy.
-----Original Message-----
From: Joe Boyle [mailto:atla38@dsl.pipex.com]
Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 3:42 PM
To: 'Deskin, Bob'; powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.
my first boss in COBOL used to regail us with stories of having to smack
'valves' with a broom handle to test which one had failed - beat that !
Regards, Joe.
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[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Deskin, Bob
Sent: 22 April 2005 21:13
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.
Hey, I figure I can still code a mean COBOL program. By the way, it
should be spelled in uppercase since it's an acronym for COmmon Business
Oriented Language. And I'm not THAT old. Mind you, I never learned how
to touch type or keyboard as it's called now. My son puts me to shame.
On the other hand, I made fewer mistakes with those punched cards :-)
Bob
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[mailto:powerh-l-admin@lists.sowder.com] On Behalf Of Ken Langendock
Sent: April 22, 2005 3:59 PM
To: powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity disorder.
ARGGGGG COBOL. Haven't used that since my first year
of professional programming....back in 1986.
As for your typing teacher...mine looked like an old battle-axe. Hence I
took auto mechanics instead. Maybe if yours was at my school I would
have taken it...definately would have learned to type without looking at
the keys...watching her instead.
I thought all the Cobol programmers died of with the Dinosaurs....lol
--- Guy Werry <guy.werry@hbms.ca> wrote:
> Two things come to mind:
>
> 1) Isn't everyone on the list just shocked to the
> core by the revelation
> that a technical / programmer type person has a
> "personality disorder"???!!!
>
> 2) REAL programmers can so type! I learned to type
> in grade 10 in one of
> those situations that demonstrate that God really
> does have a sense of
> humour. I signed up for typing only because I
> needed a credit and the
> (young) female teacher was one of the most gorgeous
> creatures I had ever
> seen! She crushed my heart by getting married at
> Christmas, I scraped
> through with a "D" grade, but DID learn to
> touch-type!
>
> Then, I got into programming. REAL programming ...
> COBOL! Still the
> language of the future!
>
> Guy.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ken Langendock
> [mailto:ken.langendock@rogers.com]
> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 1:46 PM
> To: Joe Boyle; Ken@Langendock.com;
> powerh-l@lists.sowder.com
> Subject: RE: Powerhouse and my personallity
> disorder.
>
>
> I have never been known to be subtle....but this is
> was not a criticism on your code. As soon as you
> said
> Ghost screen, I didn't go any further.
>
> As for your typing...no comment. LOL.
>
> Being a REAL programmer...I can't type worth beans myself...actually I
> hate to type...go figure.
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