RE: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users

Yeah...the snow put it over the top...I remember the other stuff
though...

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> Subject: Re: Microsoft Tries to Cozy Up to Mainframe, iSeries Users
> From: daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Date: Thu, August 26, 2004 11:59 am
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> How about RPG II on punch cards?!  ...and we didn't use none of them fancy
> keypunch machines neither, no sir!  We had to cut the little holes out with
> a dull pocket knife ...in the snow!  <vbg>  (OK, I embellished a little...)
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> Dave Parnin
> Nishikawa Standard Company
> Topeka, IN  46571
> daparnin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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> That makes you younger than me, since I started on
> a 360/30 in 1972 while still in college.
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> Based on the thread, it appears that several remember
> when there was no monitor to work on...and no pc's.
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> Raby, Steve (GE Advanced Materials, consultant) wrote:
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> > God what does that make me? I taught myself RPGIII on the S/38 back
> around 83/84 and have worked on RPG ever since. No don't answer I don't
> want to know!!! ;-)
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> > Steve who didn't feel too old when he came into work today
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