Hey Carol!

 MK> Did you have to use those eye-bleeding dumb terminals too?
 CS> Thats all we had back then.  The amber ones were the worst.

Right.  So it wasn't just us then.  My eyes hurt just thinking about them.

 CS> Reminds me of a script I wrote.  Now, I am not and never was a 
 CS> 'programmer' but i can batchfile the heck out of things.

Me too or at least that was the way of things back then.  I don't recall if
there was a compiler of an sort there.  Scripting was the way of things. 
Programming started with Unix for me.  Then DOS  but that was more hacking
then programming.

 CS> Sperry Univac 1100/60 machine, took 4 hours to 'boot' from cold.

All day from nine track tapes.  :-)  I never had to learn that thank
goodness.  If the system was down it had absolutely nothing to do with me.

 CS> I took it down to 45 minutes with no tending via batchfile trickery.
 CS> I did that when working at AFMPC for the 'phase4 transition'
 CS> (converting from Burroughs mainframe to Sperry) so my 'code' got 
 CS> widespread across the USAF.  Now and again I've run into someone
 CS> who used and improved it from the origional 'DPSN Pape' work.

Neat.  You're a pioneer.

 CS> Long gone now.

Yeah I hear ya there.  I think some of my manpages from Unix might still be
kicking around.  I wrote the best manpages I have ever seen ... to this day
too!  Mind you that really isn't saying much all things considered.  ;-)

- Maurice


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