Re: RE: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com

I may have 99% of the list beat as far as years ago is concerned. Started
programming  on an IBM 1620 computer using SPS in March 1963. First
midrange was November 1981, System 38 model D using COBOL.

Dave Willenborg
MIS Manager
J. C. Robinson Seed 
dwillenborg@jcrob.com


>1971.  That was 28 years ago this past January.
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>               -----Original Message-----
>               From:   Colin Williams [mailto:Williamsc@technocrats.co.uk]
>               Sent:   Monday, April 12, 1999 9:05 AM
>               To:     'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>               Subject:        RE: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on
>www.midrange.com
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>               What year was that, if I may be so bold!
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>               -----Original Message-----
>               From: Lurton Keel [mailto:Lurton.Keel@serx.com]
>               Sent: Monday, April 12, 1999 2:23 PM
>               To: 'MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com'
>               Subject: RE: *** ADMIN: New poll topic on www.midrange.com
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>
>                               I didn't see my first system listed either,
>so I picked
>               the
>               Sys/3.
>                               The first system I worked on was an IBM 1130
>with 8k of
>               memory running Fortran with Commercial Subroutines.
>               
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