I find it a bit uncanny ( not disbelieving anyone) that we have so many here that have worked in this field ! As must attract you!
Here's something else - AS/400 and AS. And of course, everyone knows the meaning of "400". Hmmmmm!
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade.
RPG - Rocket Propelled Grenade.
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Hmmmmm!
LOL
happy sniping
happy sniping
majipoor
And happy sniping to you.
Was the "LOL" for the RPG or AS or something else?
And happy sniping to you.
Was the "LOL" for the RPG or AS or something else?
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Originally posted by Puppy Raiser:
Hi larry
Always wanted to get into the software end of the business, but spent my career as a hardware slug.
I've dabbled with assembly, but never REALLY figured out what I was doing. Had some good results with Basic jumping to assembly subroutines though. Got into something called Mobol (a twisted and raped version of Cobol) and had some minor success, but that was only good on a single product line of a single company.
I've always been partial to FORTH. Very strange language where you basically create your own keywords. You can have a program where, "take the beer from the refrigerator and drink it" can be a fully functional program! ... or, for those south of the equator .... "put the empty vegemite jar back in the cupboard and never admit to eating it all"!
I've been a tried and true BASIC kinda guy since the beginning ... throw some z80/8080 assembler in for fun too.
RE: AS and their intermittent bugs ... they really are few and generally fixed (by what I read in these forums) rather quickly. I'm wondering though if they could use a few beta testers to run test-auctions on their development system? Things like the recent bid-group snafu would probably have been caught ... but then on the other hand, some changes need to be implemented rapidly because eBay loves to tweak their system and break other peoplese software
Mother Mary Says, 'HONESTLY! you're just ruint!'
As a software consultant, you see lots of strange things - had a client that was still uusing punch cards for it's accounting system in 1998!
We were trying to install a 3D CAD system, needless to say they had a long way to go culturally.
We were trying to install a 3D CAD system, needless to say they had a long way to go culturally.
The government is the hardest to pry away from punch cards... Makes inventory soooo easy. One card, one item.
My first college computer programing class used punch cards. They were kinda fun!...Until the first time you DROPPED your card deck!!!
Jabbergah
Jabbergah
Anyone but me know what a 'bit bucket' is?
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Was the "LOL" for the RPG or AS or something else?
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was for the RPG = rocket propelled grenade
happy sniping
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Was the "LOL" for the RPG or AS or something else?
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was for the RPG = rocket propelled grenade
happy sniping
haha, so was mine... the computer operator used to keep a spare deck of cards hidden behind the counter where you had your jobs submitted to the main frame. Bastard would wait until you were rushing in your last edit on a 3,500 card program at 11:59pm (computer center closed at midnight)the day before its due, take your deck, put it behind the counter, take out his deck of fakes, juggle it around and then drop it on the floor. Then he'd stand there and look sheepish and say 'oops' as you went from red to purple trying to control your impulses to strangle him. Then he'd laugh and laugh, grrrrrrr, lol.
happy sniping
happy sniping
Maji,
After the initial panic & blood pressure spike, you have to admit the computer op.'s joke was pretty good! LOL!
Jabbergah
After the initial panic & blood pressure spike, you have to admit the computer op.'s joke was pretty good! LOL!
Jabbergah
lol, yes I do have to admit that. Kind of thing I'd want to do if I had a boring comp op job!
happy sniping
happy sniping
My first real job (don't count busboy at a country club) was a third shift computer operator. All I did all night was hang tapes. We still had card decks as well - but the guys that ran those jobs didn't have much of a sense of humor....
In the 60s the person high on the food list was a "Systems Analyst" and there was true story about one of those guys.
It seems that our company had too many punch cards, I mean like warehouses full of them. We had just replaced our EAM equipment with computers running a TOS (tape Operating System) and really needed to get rid of all those cards. We tried burning them but they stuck together and using gasoline was expensive and the Chicago Fire Department discouraged using solvents. So we gave it to our Systems Analyst.
He studied the problem for 10 days and came back with 12 books of charts and instructions. They boiled down to this: Go card-to-tape with the cards and
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Burn the Tapes.
It seems that our company had too many punch cards, I mean like warehouses full of them. We had just replaced our EAM equipment with computers running a TOS (tape Operating System) and really needed to get rid of all those cards. We tried burning them but they stuck together and using gasoline was expensive and the Chicago Fire Department discouraged using solvents. So we gave it to our Systems Analyst.
He studied the problem for 10 days and came back with 12 books of charts and instructions. They boiled down to this: Go card-to-tape with the cards and
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Burn the Tapes.
Had a friend in college who taught himself Fortran using the book I had for the course I was taking. He later transferred to a school in the West in his home state. He wrote a program that could bomb out the school's computer which he would put in the in box whenever he got ticked off at the shcool. Later when on to start a software company and did quite well before selling it several years ago.
I spent many a boring night working as a grant-in-aid running the punch cards through the reader, and the finished print-outs and cards back in the bins for students. Old GE Computer actually had wires connecting all the transistors. Looked like colored spaghetti.
I spent many a boring night working as a grant-in-aid running the punch cards through the reader, and the finished print-outs and cards back in the bins for students. Old GE Computer actually had wires connecting all the transistors. Looked like colored spaghetti.
Lol, drummer...he should have given you a cut of the profit!!
I should have been so lucky!
Lol! You might look him up and remind him! (just kidding!)
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