By the way, is there a Computer Ping list for people who are Programmers?
I secured my 1st computer in Nov. 1977. You had to learn programming in order to use it. Software has come a long way since then, so today, one doesn’t need to “know” how to program.
Despite that, I have been involved in Data Acquisition since 1995 - securing real-time data from industrial manufacturing devices, through an RS232 serial port, and writing the necessary code to facilitate this.
Are there any other FReepers so involved?
I secured my 1st computer in Nov. 1977. You had to learn programming in order to use it. Software has come a long way since then, so today, one doesn’t need to “know” how to program.
Not a programmer at first, but I started as a sysop back in 1970 — that amounted to reading cards (hollerith cards commonly called “IBM cards”) into a mainframe.
No job-schedulers in those days so if you pissed off the sysops, your batch job got punted to third shift (read 1-day turnaround).
Can we start the old-phart reminiscing now? “We had zeros back in those days, but had to bang two rocks together to make ones.” /grandpa_sipmson