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[14TriGlider]

Any old RPG/RPGII/RPGIII/RPGIV programmers out there on trikes? How about COBOL? I got into programming on a Radio Shack TRS80 using a database program called Profile +. Then it was RPG on an IBM System 38 which turned into the IBM AS400 for 33 years till I retired March of 2014. During that time I did a little programming in Basic, Quick Basic, DBase III, Foxpro, CL, SQL, and Oracle. I programmed for fifteen years in the moving business with Wheaton Worldwide Moving in Indianapolis. I finished with 18 years in retail with Office Depot Where I supported order entry throughout Europe from Boca Raton, FL. I also did back end programming for the officedepot.com web sites. It was a great way to make a living but I haven't missed it a bit! How about you?

[Bikerbozo]

Drawing a blank on what the format was called, but I remember writing programs in the '70's that had to be printed out in binary form on paper tape (think ticker tape).

[14TriGlider]

Drawing a blank on what the format was called, but I remember writing programs in the '70's that had to be printed out in binary form on paper tape (think ticker tape).

Now that's going back always! When I got started in '81, we still had a keypunch machine hooked up. Heads down keypunch operators would key in one or two columns of data and when they were finished they would key in the very same data to verify. Some of my very first programs were edit/upload programs for the key punched data.

[werewolf]

OMG, a trash80, the first computer I played a game on

[jaxbobg]

I started out in 1964 plugging wires across holes in a board to program a 407 accounting machine that use punched cards for the data and printed out on fanfold paper. Later programmed in SPS, COBOL, RPG, Basic, SAS, FORTRAN. Even worked on an old Univac machine once.

That was back in the days when there was IBM and the seven dwarfs, Burroughs, Honeywell, RCA, Sperry, NCR, CDC ... I forgot the others (oh, well) all out of the computer business now but IBM.

Those were the days my friend (we thought they'd never end).

[wehrme]

Did my first programming in 1967 at Danville Junior College. Machine Language, Fortran and Cobol (simulation) on a IBM 1420.

Whole career at Caterpillar with the 'code monkey' bunch.