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Fortran 4 in high school in 1972. 026 keypunch. Lame IBM "programmed learning" course. IBM 360 at the Seattle Public Schools central office, approximately three week (!!) turnaround via US Mail round trip. Favorite error message "Expecting operator but , before J was found"
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First professional experience was PL/I on IBM 360/95 modeling heat flow through a nuclear reactor core section and Assembly language on a HP 2116 at Argonne National Laboratory in 1968 for data collection.
Then went to work for GTE after Nixon got elected and axed R&D budgets where I was programming the IBM 1800 in Assembly and a touch of Fortran II. Modified the be-dickens out of the 1800 MPX operating system including writing a printer spooling system, developing support for the 2314 disk drives, bi-sync communications to IBM 370/158 and 168, and developing real time multi-programming/multi-tasking OS'es including assemblers for Data General Nova and GTE Tempo II computer, all while going to night school at IIT and studying languages such as Lisp and Univac 1108 assembly language.
Managed to get married, buy and remodel a house and have 3 kids. I'm not sure if I ever slept.
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Please don't repost if your message doesn't appear immediately: all three got sent to moderation by the automated system and required a human to check and approve them. And then follow you around and clear up the spares ... 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Sorry about that. We've been having ISP problems with intermittent outages. I thought maybe that was causing the delay in seeing the post.
Thanks.
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Not trying to top you all but in 1963 I went to work at the University of B.C. as an operator on an IBM1620. I learned to program in assembler and FORTRAN 1a. FORTRAN was a 2 pass compiler. you would load pass 1 by cards followed by your program followed by pass 2 followed by your program again. I also monitored the ALWAC III a machine with mercury delay memory. We finally upgraded to an IBM7040 with mag tapes and a disk drive the size of a commercial refrigerator. By then I was a systems programmer. I've been through many languages such as algol, B, Basic(several), C, C++, COBOL, JAVA, Lisp, Pascal, PL1, and many assemblers. Worked with various machines from IBM, Honeywell, Intel(Microsoft et al), Digital Equipment, RCA, CDC. I'm now retired and write in C for my own pleasure for windows, Raspberry Pi, arduino. Fortran was the most fun.
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A PC games magazine published readers' games on the pack-in-CD. Some of them were written in QBasic with the QBasic interpreter attached. That got me started (and I even got a creation of mine published).
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Now that's scary! From prolific poster to nada in what, weeks now?
[edit]Never mind, I must be blind.[/edit]
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It's Halloween - he's not allowed out until after dark.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Ssh, let sleeping persons lie.
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She died in a tragic accident when a house fell on her during a tornado.
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Don't you think this is a bit of bad taste?
Forget it... OG had to make me see the relationship to "Oz". My apologies. I stand corrected
M.D.V. 
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modified 31-Oct-19 9:18am.
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No, they saved her shoes.
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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Ok... I now get the joke.
M.D.V.
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modified 31-Oct-19 9:23am.
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Waiting for a Window... so can't post with freezing fingers...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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The same place that all manic-depressive trolls, with gender issues, desperate for attention, go 
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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The oldest reported member is theoldfool, with 85 years of experience...
The youngest reported member is maze3, with 17 (and a half) years of hunger...
Purely based on the posts the majority is over 40... Which is interesting for an area with reputation of 'for young only'...
(maybe that reputation was built by hr related, who knows nothing of the value of experience and the development of learning abilities with age)
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter wrote: Purely based on the posts the majority is over 40... Which is interesting for an area with reputation of 'for young only'...
(maybe that reputation was built by hr related, who knows nothing of the value of experience and the development of learning abilities with age)
Or the area still is mostly for "only young" people, but only the older ones post in the lounge :P
M.D.V.
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Or maybe the youngsters are still in the phase of 'self'...
"The only place where Success comes before Work is in the dictionary." Vidal Sassoon, 1928 - 2012
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Nelek wrote: but only the older ones post in the lounge
You can find younger ones posting in the QA. 
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Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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Never argue with a fool. Onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
Mark Twain
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Relax, there'll be no world left to rule. 
Our robotic overlords are nigh.
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you are more evil than me 
M.D.V. 
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I just try to please mine.
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Nelek wrote: those are the ones who will "rule the world", when we are not there anymore
Sure, and I am happy not to be around any more. I don't like what the world has turned into today, and after twenty or thirty more years of this "progress" I don't think I will be able to cope with it at all. I'd be happy to go.
I guess my father had the same feelings about how we ruined his world. Probably my grandfathers were thinking along similar lines. They did not turn into grumpy old men complaining about the young people nowadays. They let us make the world the way we found right. So I am saying the same to the young people of today: Do it your way. Just don't expect me to praise it, because it is certainly not my way. You do it your way, and take all the responsibility and the blame.
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