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2022-11-22 11:32 pm
@mrremedy Yes, otherwise known as TAB equipment, 402, 407, 088, 001, 010, 011, 024, 026, 029 519, 1912, my memory fails after that.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2022-11-22 11:34 pm
@robotbuilder IBM tried a few 'natural' language languages back in the 70's. They worked ok for non programmers, didn't do much for programmers though.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
2022-11-22 11:36 pm
@mrremedy I spent a summer at Westinghouse and for part of it was assisting a fellow debug a pipe line computer. It was all relays and the way he debugged was to listen to it. My job was cleaning the relay contact that was dirty thus causing the problem. He was seldom wrong! One of the most amazing things I ever seen.
First computer 1959. Retired from my own computer company 2004.
Hardware - Expert in 1401, and 360, fairly knowledge in PC plus numerous MPU's and MCU's
Major Languages - Machine language, 360 Macro Assembler, Intel Assembler, PL/I and PL1, Pascal, Basic, C plus numerous job control and scripting languages.
Sure you can learn to be a programmer, it will take the same amount of time for me to learn to be a Doctor.
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2022-11-23 4:14 am
@zander Wow, that's scrary, that he was there so long that he could diagnose a problem just hearing the clack sequences. Wow. Kind of reminds me back when I had a secretarial pool. The one with the most tenure could tell if any of the other gals were not working on their assigned tasks. Them were the days...
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