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Bodryn · 07-19-2010, 11:25 PM

I suppose during my working days I never worked in IT, although I did write programs for a physics professor during a year off to go to more college - when I had my first opportunity to take computer courses. Got a mention in some National Science Foundation article. This was around 1975, when we had teletype machines hooked up to a mainframe 250 miles away via 110 baud modems, and also an in-house computer for when I took an assembly language course for which we had to type up IBM cards to run maybe once an hour (if we were lucky), to see if we had done it right. LOL.

I did learn early on that writing programs 40 hours a week would be too much. As a hobby, it has been GREAT, although a great time waster. We owe a lot to Steve Wozniak, and to the development of the Lisa, the predecessor to the Macintosh. An interesting book about MicroSoft can be read: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates - written by a programmer who spent 13 years with the company. Good insight on the development of the various Windows systems and how Apple's Macintosh influenced that process.

07-19-2010, 11:25 PM	#16
Bodryn Member Join Date: Jul 2010 Location: Minnesota; Manitoba Posts: 90	Work in IT I suppose during my working days I never worked in IT, although I did write programs for a physics professor during a year off to go to more college - when I had my first opportunity to take computer courses. Got a mention in some National Science Foundation article. This was around 1975, when we had teletype machines hooked up to a mainframe 250 miles away via 110 baud modems, and also an in-house computer for when I took an assembly language course for which we had to type up IBM cards to run maybe once an hour (if we were lucky), to see if we had done it right. LOL. I did learn early on that writing programs 40 hours a week would be too much. As a hobby, it has been GREAT, although a great time waster. We owe a lot to Steve Wozniak, and to the development of the Lisa, the predecessor to the Macintosh. An interesting book about MicroSoft can be read: Barbarians Led by Bill Gates - written by a programmer who spent 13 years with the company. Good insight on the development of the various Windows systems and how Apple's Macintosh influenced that process. __________________ Bodryn ======== "Where are we going? And why are we in this handbasket?"