Re(2): AS/400/Olden days

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)
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