Thank you for telling your story Francis! I can now see my tech
beginnings were quite advanced - I began programming on an IBM 360 model
30. Card readers were the only inputs, 32k of memory (2 16k
partitions!), a console full of flashing lights, and two external hard
drives - floor units, each about the size of a smaller washing machine,
with removable platters no less! They could each hold a whopping 1.8 MB.
We've been blessed to see so much harnessing and transformation of tech
in our times, but then I remember my "other mother" - the lady who was
my next door neighbor from birth to when I moved away in 1970. She was
born in 1912 (that's right, she'll be 104 this year!) and I spend time
with her every summer. She has a Kindle and absolutely loves it. It's
hard to digest her perspective on it all, even after talking with her
about it.
Best -
Phil Davis
On 4/29/16 10:51 AM, Francis Nugent Dixon wrote:
Hi from Beautiful Brittany,
It all depends on what you mean by "developer" :
1 - You write apps for your own use ?
2 - You sell your apps for money, or give them away to anyone who wants them ?
3 - You spent several years with a software house developing for them ?
4 - You create apps because you love turning problems into apps ?
5 - Your computer runs Window 3, and you don't use it any more
(but you did live some "developer "days !)
For me, all but no. 5 are true ! I write apps (now using liveCode) every day,
'cos I always find a new reason that I didn't have yesterday.
I wrote my first program (just curious) on an ICL computer at
Liverpool University, in 1959 (or was it 1960 ?) My buddy ran it for me.
My first real computer was an IBM 1401 (early 60's), where I moved
from machine code through Assembler, to PL/1. Then I moved into
"Data Transmission" which kept me rather busy until I retired.
Then I started writing apps in earnest (on a daily basis, but for myself).
I've been writing (mostly) for fun since then.
I am certainly not the oldest programmer/developer in the world,
but I do my bit. I'm hitting 74 ..........
-Francis
"Nothing should ever be done for the first time !"
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