Subj : Re: How do you use unix?
To   : Gandolf
From : KnightMare
Date : Tue Sep 03 2024 10:40 pm

  Re: Re: How do you use unix?   
  By: Gandolf to Amessyroom on Mon Sep 02 2024 10:11 pm   
   
 Ga> I've been doing this a long time, and I'm still learning stuff on a    
 Ga> daily basis.   
   
I started my IT carrer since HS. (1980)   
   
Cut my teeth on our timesharing system using a 300baud dialup connection from  
Kearny NJ to Perth Amboy NJ.   
   
On Tue and Wed a group of us (5) went to the VoTech in Jersey City NJ and we  
spent 4 hours learning RPG II on punched cards and 8 1/2 inch floppies. 
 
On Tuesday, we prgrammed our cards and they were stored in a box. 
On Thursday, we would have our print outs waiting for us, hoping the program didn't bomb and we had to spend the time manually debugging errors with each other. 
   
I still have one of the 5 disc CDI discpacks given to me as a momento and a floppy with nothing on the label save for the name of my IBM AS/400 name : "AMPLIBR". We all named our libraries (LIBR) prefixed with our initials.
   
Ahhhhh...memories...   
   
I don't miss the  X-LOCKED  error messages...   

.... was it an AS/400 or a 3270? Hmmmmmmmm...   
  
 

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