Roughly 34 as systems programmer/sysadmin (things were kind of blurred in the mid 70s); Did my time on:
IBM 360/30 (new) (DOS)
Burroughs Medium Systems (B2500 and B3700) (MCP/V) (Pronounced Master Control Program Five)
Raytheon PTS 1200
Honeywell DPS-8/44\ (GCOS -3)
Honeywell DPS-6 (field systems; replaced the Raytheons)
IBM 4381 (MVS)
IBM 3090-200 J (MVS-XA)
IBM 9672-R1 (MVS-ESA)
And finally, starting in 1996 - IBM RS-6000 systems; got into storage area networks with these.
Retired in 2009; 34 years at my second employer, starting with the Burroughs systems. And yes, AIX LVMs rocked! Especially when the DBAs were showing up every other day needing more room in an Oracle filesystem (First cut on database size when we converted to SAP/R3 - 120 GB would last a year; 3 months later we were at 240 GB and waiting for the next shipment of SSA drives and shelves to arrive. We hit 580 GB that first year)
D&D was loosely based on concepts from "The Lord of the Rings", recently published back then by Ace in paperback format. The American publisher of LOTR had allowed the copyright to lapse because the books just didn't sell. And the people at Ace were explicit after-the-fact -- if the had been required to negotiate royaltie payments the project would never have been done. The consensus at the time was that adult fantasy does not sell.
Within weeks there was a set by Ballentine books (at 95 cents each, vs the Ace 75 cents) as the 'authorized edition'; shortly thereafter, Ace announced they had made royalty arrangements. Then Houghton-Mifflin re-printed the hardbacks. Lancer started issuing paperbacks of the Conan stories and Lord Dunsany's fantasy stories. New fantasy stories started to appear - and Gygax and Arneson came up with D&D.
Look at all the LOTR and D&D spin-offs in books, movies, other FRP games - and most would probably never have come about if the copyrights to LOTR had not been allowed to lapse.
Yeah - I live in Northern Indiana, and my choices are Verizon Wi-FI with a 4 GB cap at $49.00 a month or dial-up. My dial-up costs $99.00 a year and is unlimited, with a maximum connect time of 8 hours. But no issues if I redial/reconnect immediately.
I run privoxy (junkbuster) and have been for several years. But it makes no difference -- before I ran anything to suppress ads I just ignored them. If the payment model requires click-through there will never be any revenue from me.
Change the payment model to match the press, some number of mils per impression delivered and I'll selectively enable ads for sites I want to support. After all, do you visit every store with an advertisement in the newspaper? And, in general, I'm not interested in (and wouldn't click on) cars; travel; lodging; food; software; clothing; music; or anything sports-related.
Change the model, and I might consider unblocking ads. I won't click through unless I'm deeply interested in the product or service (and this last happened three years ago), so some number of cents per click-through won't work.
But some number of mills per impression or delivery might. No flash, no blink, and no audio, just plain text/images like a newspaper ad. And paid for like a newspaper ad.
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Roughly 34 as systems programmer/sysadmin (things were kind of blurred in the mid 70s); Did my time on:
IBM 360/30 (new) (DOS)
Burroughs Medium Systems (B2500 and B3700) (MCP/V) (Pronounced Master Control Program Five)
Raytheon PTS 1200
Honeywell DPS-8/44\ (GCOS -3)
Honeywell DPS-6 (field systems; replaced the Raytheons)
IBM 4381 (MVS)
IBM 3090-200 J (MVS-XA)
IBM 9672-R1 (MVS-ESA)
And finally, starting in 1996 - IBM RS-6000 systems; got into storage area networks with these.
Retired in 2009; 34 years at my second employer, starting with the Burroughs systems. And yes, AIX LVMs rocked! Especially when the DBAs were showing up every other day needing more room in an Oracle filesystem (First cut on database size when we converted to SAP/R3 - 120 GB would last a year; 3 months later we were at 240 GB and waiting for the next shipment of SSA drives and shelves to arrive. We hit 580 GB that first year)
First thing I install on any system I buy - privoxy. (http://www.privoxy.org/) Blocks ads and web-bugs out of the box.
D&D was loosely based on concepts from "The Lord of the Rings", recently published back then by Ace in paperback format. The American publisher of LOTR had allowed the copyright to lapse because the books just didn't sell. And the people at Ace were explicit after-the-fact -- if the had been required to negotiate royaltie payments the project would never have been done. The consensus at the time was that adult fantasy does not sell.
Within weeks there was a set by Ballentine books (at 95 cents each, vs the Ace 75 cents) as the 'authorized edition'; shortly thereafter, Ace announced they had made royalty arrangements. Then Houghton-Mifflin re-printed the hardbacks. Lancer started issuing paperbacks of the Conan stories and Lord Dunsany's fantasy stories. New fantasy stories started to appear - and Gygax and Arneson came up with D&D.
Look at all the LOTR and D&D spin-offs in books, movies, other FRP games - and most would probably never have come about if the copyrights to LOTR had not been allowed to lapse.
Yeah - I live in Northern Indiana, and my choices are Verizon Wi-FI with a 4 GB cap at $49.00 a month or dial-up. My dial-up costs $99.00 a year and is unlimited, with a maximum connect time of 8 hours. But no issues if I redial/reconnect immediately.
I run privoxy (junkbuster) and have been for several years. But it makes no difference -- before I ran anything to suppress ads I just ignored them. If the payment model requires click-through there will never be any revenue from me.
Change the payment model to match the press, some number of mils per impression delivered and I'll selectively enable ads for sites I want to support. After all, do you visit every store with an advertisement in the newspaper? And, in general, I'm not interested in (and wouldn't click on) cars; travel; lodging; food; software; clothing; music; or anything sports-related.
But some number of mills per impression or delivery might. No flash, no blink, and no audio, just plain text/images like a newspaper ad. And paid for like a newspaper ad.