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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: computer history stories
Paul;
There are a lot more of us around than the youngsters like to acknowledge
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My first .... and only programming course was at Texas A&M University, a fortran course where we had to do our programs on Punch Cards.... everything else is self taught. I got my Degrees in Nuclear Engineering and Health Physics instead of programming. From that to Oracle Database Administration in more than one not-so-easy lesson.... Go figure.
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Sent: Thursday, August 02, 2001 2:35 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
I just want to thank everyone whose stories indicate that they are at least middle-aged--for a while (especially at my last job where the average age was about 25), I'd been feeling as though I was the last over-40 tech-head left on the East Coast.
Now, as long as I'm posting, my "how-I-got-started" story:
I majored in liberal arts and worked as a real-estate property manager for about 5 years. Encouraged by programmer friends, I took some classes, in Fortran, Intro. to Computer Logic, and DG MV/8000 assembly language. My first job, in 1981, was as an assembly language programmer, but not for the MV/8000; rather, writing firmware for the Intel 8085. I couldn't believe how primitive it seemed after programming for the then-state-of-the-art MV/8000. The experience, though, of working from hardware schematics and Intel data books was invaluable. You really know how a computer works when you've learned about asserting ALE (address latch enable) and strobing the address bus!
Paul Baumgartel
MortgageSight Holdings, LLC
pbaumgartel_at_mortgagesight.com
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