[Info-vax] "Shanghai Stock Exchange" and OpenVMS

[Bill Gunshannon]

In article <KfydncM6gdSCt0jUnZ2dnUVZ_oCdnZ2d at giganews.com>,
	"Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
> Bill Gunshannon wrote:
>> In article <fxrX1XLbYIa8 at eisner.encompasserve.org>,
>> 	koehler at eisner.nospam.encompasserve.org (Bob Koehler) writes:
>>> In article <hZ6dnSkmzc1-nefUnZ2dnUVZ_vWdnZ2d at giganews.com>, "Richard B. Gilbert" <rgilbert88 at comcast.net> writes:
>>>> Who are you calling "junior", junior?  I was VAXinated in 1984!  I 
>>>> started with VMS V3.x on a VAX 11/750.  Yeah, I was 4.something years 
>>>> late but I couldn't afford to buy my own; I had to wait for old 
>>>> moneybags to cough up the coins!
>>>    All of us who got our first VAX when 11/780 was the only model,
>>>    and it ran VAX-11/VMS 1.x, still get to think of you as a newcomer.
>> 
>> Some of us had years (or even decades) of experience before the first
>> VAX even came into existence, junior.  :-)
>> 
> 
> You may number me along with those of whom you speak.  I met my first 
> computer in 1967!  It was an SDS 730.  ISTR it had a whole 32K of 
> magnetic core memory.  I also worked briefly with a PDP-8.

I took my first Company Sponsered Computer Class in 1968.  We used some
kind of IBM mainframe but I was new and never got to actually see the
machine.  By 1971 I was a night-shift computer operator on am IBM 1401
and that was when I first learned to program (in Autocoder and in pure
machine language).  Went on from there to COBOL, Fortran, Algol, PL/1,
various assemblers and more other languages that were even more obscure.
I have worked on more architectures than most of the faculty at my
University have ever heard of.  And you know what, I really miss those
days because what passes for "programming" today is really dismal in
comparison.

bill

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