The "Next Big Thing" when I was a programmer was top down, structured programming (COBOL and 370 Assembler).
Like Jane, I remember the days fondly, the nights not so fondly, and hardly ever wish I still had a clue what goes on under the hood. I was one of the lucky ones. We had terminals to do our coding on, but if a program bombed at night we still got to fix and recompile it via punch cards because the mainframe we had was not big enough to run the online system AND the night batch system at the same time. I'll bow to my elder, Jane, I'm only 54 :) Tom P. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Javier Perez Sent: Wednesday, September 12, 2007 11:36 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: EOS CF Cards and deletion Quite so Francis. Unfortunately in my case I became too obsessed with hardware and forgot about most everything else. Fortran, Assembly, a tad of C, Acad and a couple weird OSes were all I ever got into. I kinda tuned out when the object oriented craze started. (I think it's still going) Instead I concentrated on boards and hardware. I remember my last favourite pastime in computers was designing the ideal case! As you may remember most computer cases, even the better ones were abysmal from a cooling and layout standpoiunt and flimsey from a security standpoint. I had Acaded some inceredible cases that had the most well thought out cooling on any machine I had ever seen. Unfortunately I never got around to visiting the metal shops and eventually big cases went the way of big computers. Even the servers aren't that big anymore! Boy I loved cases! Javier * **** ******* *********************************************************** * For list instructions, including unsubscribe, see: * http://www.a1.nl/phomepag/markerink/eos_list.htm ***********************************************************
