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After reading this message, I started thinking about the good old days. I graduated from Technical school in August 1964 after learning programming on an IBM 1620 using SPS. I went to work for a county government that had installed an IBM 1401 with 1,400 bytes of main memory, card reader/punch, 2 IBM 720 tape drives and a 1403 printer. I was paid the amazing salary of $468.50 per month. After 1 year I resigned and went to work for a company that was installing an IBM 360 model 20 using TOS (tape operating system) and coding in RPG. They paid me $600 per month. Not bad for a 23 year programmer at that time. AHHHH the good old days. Dave Willenborg MIS Manager J C Robinson Seed Company dwillenborg@jcrob.com >Dan > You and I get off topic, couple of old fogies...lol > That was 1968, school was BMTI Business Machines Training Institute.It >used to be accross the street from the Bay at Bloor and Yonge >in Toronto. > Lot of turf has gone by since...you gotta remember, I was making >something like $55 a week, an that kind of salary was impressive. > I think he coded in SPS or auto-coder. > For those unfamiliar with those languages, you had a sheet of graft >paper, and assigned every byte of memory. > Enough of the 'good old days...' >Ken >"Bale, Dan" wrote: >> >> LOL! But how bout some context, Ken? What year was that? Or does >> that give us more info about you than you care to share? <g> >> >> Dan Bale >> IT - AS/400 >> Handleman Company >> 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 >> D.Bale@Handleman.com >> Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. >> (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) >> >> -------------------------- Original Message -------------------------- >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: ken shields [SMTP:kjs@idirect.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, July 31, 2001 5:51 PM >> To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com >> Subject: Re: AS/400 >> >> Dan >> I remember my instructor made the unheard of income of >> $15,000/yr. >> We were agape!... >> >> "Bale, Dan" wrote: >> > >> > Well, heck, I sure don't remember the model numbers of the card >> >> > readers, but I had an RPG 1.5 class that compiled on an IBM >> 1130. >> > Towards the end of the semester, we were effectively limited to >> one >> > compile every 4 hours, what with the backlog on the card >> reader. >> > Heard a lot of cursing when there was a simple syntax error and >> the >> > compile failed. >> > >> > For advanced RPG II, we had to go to the local hospital (where >> the RPG >> > instructor worked) that had a screamin' S/3 WITH INTERACTIVE >> > TERMINALS! Wow. I remember thinking how hot *that* was! >> > >> > I am *not* as old as dirt! >> > >> > Dan Bale >> > IT - AS/400 >> > Handleman Company >> > 248-362-4400 Ext. 4952 >> > D.Bale@Handleman.com >> > Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. >> > (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) > >-- >Best Regards >Ken Shields >Home phone: 905 404-2062 >Bus phone 905 725-1144 (326) >+--- >| This is the Midrange System Mailing List! >| To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. >| To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. >| To unsubscribe from this list send email to >MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. >| Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: >david@midrange.com >+--- +--- | This is the Midrange System Mailing List! | To submit a new message, send your mail to MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com. | To subscribe to this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-SUB@midrange.com. | To unsubscribe from this list send email to MIDRANGE-L-UNSUB@midrange.com. | Questions should be directed to the list owner/operator: david@midrange.com +---
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