Jim Lawrence
accessd at shaw.ca
Fri Nov 18 20:15:01 CST 2011
1967....so you were helping with landing men on the moon? Who were you working for? I did not get into computers until 10 or 11 years later. FORTRAN was a great program. No other program ever exceeded its ability to do a core dump of 200 pages, becuase of a single misplaced or missing period. That is why there was always a senior tech on site when ever there was a seies compiling to be done...so they could kill a run-a-way process on the main frame. ;-) But it was fast... And it was great for teaching Octal math used for calculating varibale offsets in the common block. I must say I was actually quite good at it. ;-) Jim -----Original Message----- From: dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com [mailto:dba-tech-bounces at databaseadvisors.com] On Behalf Of Stuart McLachlan Sent: Friday, November 18, 2011 5:37 PM To: Discussion of Hardware and Software issues Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] What got you interested in technology? IT's rich andfamous share their memories I got my Amiga 500 in 1987 (?), which was 20 years after I wrote my first Fortran program :-) -- Stuart On 18 Nov 2011 at 17:11, Hans-Christian Andersen wrote: > I envy you all. :) I was just a wee sprog in those days. My first > exposure to programming was Logo and then the ball got rolling once I > got my Amiga 500. But I still missed out on a lot before that. > > - Hans > > Sent from my iPhone > _______________________________________________ dba-Tech mailing list dba-Tech at databaseadvisors.com http://databaseadvisors.com/mailman/listinfo/dba-tech Website: http://www.databaseadvisors.com