WOW 30 years do fly by. For my first job I worked for MCM, in Kingston and Toronto, for most of the 70's in production, testing and field servies. I had a great time helping support various government and actuarial bodies on both sides of our shared border and I was always intrigued by the impressed looks of users once they got into the system and achieved most impressive results using the MCM/APL operating system. Ah all the classified uses the various military groups thought of. Very useful!
However as indicated in the article financial troubles hampered the what was then expected to be our meteoric future and most dissappointed were the customers who wanted to grow with the systems as technologies grew. Possibly it was all the trees used to printout all that code?
All in it was an incredible environment to start my career and such a contrast to the PDPs and IBM/360 we learned programming with at college! And the developers managed to get some games to work on that little orange SelfScan display, now that's a GUI!
Ah I wish the good old days were back again when hackers was a good profession and systems virus free:) I wish the MCM alumni well! Where are you all now? Share some electrons - MCM at DarrylMabee.com
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WOW 30 years do fly by. For my first job I worked for MCM, in Kingston and Toronto, for most of the 70's in production, testing and field servies. I had a great time helping support various government and actuarial bodies on both sides of our shared border and I was always intrigued by the impressed looks of users once they got into the system and achieved most impressive results using the MCM/APL operating system. Ah all the classified uses the various military groups thought of. Very useful!
However as indicated in the article financial troubles hampered the what was then expected to be our meteoric future and most dissappointed were the customers who wanted to grow with the systems as technologies grew. Possibly it was all the trees used to printout all that code?
All in it was an incredible environment to start my career and such a contrast to the PDPs and IBM/360 we learned programming with at college! And the developers managed to get some games to work on that little orange SelfScan display, now that's a GUI!
Ah I wish the good old days were back again when hackers was a good profession and systems virus free:)
I wish the MCM alumni well! Where are you all now? Share some electrons - MCM at DarrylMabee.com