My summer intern job during college. Daily financial reports: 17 different COBOL programs, strung together by the wonders of JCL. No direct pipes, just intermediate files, which had to be written and read back from tapes (data was too big for the disks at the time). My job was to stay late and watch over it, figuring out how to restart it when it blew up somewhere in the middle.
The idea that software should be componentized - built from prefabricated components - first became prominent with Douglas McIlroy's address at the NATO conference on software engineering in Garmisch, Germany, 1968, titled Mass Produced Software Components.[3] The conference set out to counter the so-called software crisis. McIlroy's subsequent inclusion of pipes and filters into the Unix operating system was the first implementation of an infrastructure for this idea.
Brad Cox of Stepstone largely defined the modern concept of a software component.[4] He called them Software ICs and set out to create an infrastructure and market for these components by inventing the Objective-C programming language. (He summarizes this view in his book Object-Oriented Programming - An Evolutionary Approach 1986.)
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Boon: Forget it, he's rolling.
So I guess my 110 Baud acoustic coupler modem doesn't qualify. Time for an upgrade!
Maybe one of these would do the trick:
http://www.grandtournation.com/5317/ambulance-shenanigans/
I did so love my dial-up internet.
You still out there, toad.net ?
It taught me to punch cards. Does that count?
and then move upstairs?
Reminds me of something I once heard:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0562875/quotes
Hey, me too! Fairfax county, Virginia.
That was my second one. The first was made by Wang...
(not a joke)
I've played this game before. I always lose.
I'm on a "no Facebook since birth" diet. It's been working quite well for me.
I'd tell you my age in binary, but I can't count that high anymore.
If Trump wins, the obvious nominee is
Trump!
The raised floor under me right now is 3' above the actual floor.
And it's only half full.
So far...
We tried to hire him, but had to settle for Pete Moss.
My summer intern job during college. Daily financial reports: 17 different COBOL programs, strung together by the wonders of JCL. No direct pipes, just intermediate files, which had to be written and read back from tapes (data was too big for the disks at the time). My job was to stay late and watch over it, figuring out how to restart it when it blew up somewhere in the middle.
Serpentine Shelly. Serpentine!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0079336/quotes?item=qt0136887/
With wireless, everything's air-gapped.
Shields up!
Or to someone with a PhD. It's nothing but getters and setters all the way down...
ahem...
s/Dennis Ritchie/Ken Thompson/
kids these days. no sense of history.
IBM Selectric. Nothing finer than that.
I would think that 'wildly inaccurate' describes it better.
There's no access like physical access
I'm the programmable thermostat at home; my wife is the controller...
Depends on your form factor