Re: AS/400

[ken shields <kjs@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)
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