Omer Zak said on Fri, 24 Dec 2021 20:32:56 +0200 >My friend, thankfully, has already progressed to the 1.44MB, 3.5" >diskettes era when the now-archeological PC was new. >No 5.25" diskettes. >No 8" diskettes.
LOL, my first job in the computer industry was as a receptionist at one of those early computer stores that catered to business. CPM, hard disk, Wordstar, spreadsheet and Dbase. And 8 inch floppies. This was February or March of 1984, and we were still emerging from the 1982-83 recession, so in spite of the fact that in school I wrote a Cobol program that would take, as input, another Cobol program, and output a function decomposition diagram of the input, complete with branches, loops and procedure calls, nobody would hire me. So I became a receptionist in order to get a "computer job". Two months later I had a real job as a Pascal programmer (remember, bad economy, I took what I could), on PDP-11/23 with 5MB Winchester removeable drive and about 50 serial ports to drive serial terminals. I never saw an 8 inch floppy again. SteveT Steve Litt Spring 2021 featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques _______________________________________________ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il
