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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> Re: OT -- suggestions to ensure nerdiness in potential IT staff
Mid 70's? I never used a computer before 1990. I went from zero experience to real-time, hybrid unix on a mainframe doing maintenance programming for an Air Traffic Control system. Prior to that, I worked blue-collar (come from a long line of ironworkers) until I joined the USAF and they told me I was a computer programmer...
Scott Shafer
San Antonio, TX
"Page, Bruce" wrote:
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> And just think about the PC being an advanced system for some of us.
>
> Wait until we again start talking about using paper tapes and having to use scotch
>tape to put them back together to run them through. Or even the older guys that talk
>about switch boards. I am not as old as them. My computer days just go back to the
>mid 70's.
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> > I love this stuff(being a nerd wannabe), but I don't have a
> > frickin clue
> > what any of you are talking about:)
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