Congratulations for both the long carreer and for this huge change in your life! I wish I can put in as many years as you have, for sure. 41 years to go..... :)
Take care and enjoy! Lucas On Jun 26, 2015 7:44 PM, "Nims,Alva John (Al)" <ajn...@ufl.edu> wrote: > First, My own congratulations on new venture in life! "Life is a banquet > and most poor suckers are starving to death!" go out and live! You did not > retire from life! > > Second: "Sort Needle" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edge-notched_card > look at the second on "Needle Card." > > Al Nims > Systems Admin/Programmer 3 > Information Technology > University of Florida > (352) 273-1298 > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tom Brennan > Sent: Friday, June 26, 2015 1:31 PM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: EOJ, literally. > > Wow, 2 months shy of 50 years. Congratulations! > But what in the world was a sort needle? > > Tony's Outlook via Mozilla wrote: > > Colleagues, I saying my professional goodbye. I retired at noon today > > after 49 years and 10 months in the business. The career began > > sorting cards and wiring panels. Progressing past all the card > > machines to Autocoder, RPG, Cobol, VSE, VM, PL1, Quikjob, Easytrieve, > > Panvalet, SAS, MVS sysprogging (barely qualified), Top Secret, RACF, > > it's become time to hang up the sort needle and card gauge. > > > > IBM-MAIN and Assembler-L (again, I barely qualify) have been a great > > source of education and entertainment. > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email > to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
