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Re: Age?

• Posted by gebrandariz <gebrandariz at YAHOO.COM> Aug 14, 2000
• 653 views

Earl: some 15 years ago I wrote a COBOL program that formatted a report. No
graphics supported, so I drew vertical lines using exclamation symbols.
Hundreds of them. What I didn't know was that the idiotic high speed line
printer would interpret them as form feeds. I surely don't miss some aspects
of the good old times.

Gerardo E. Brandariz


----- Original Message -----
From: Earl Hackett <hacketet at EARTHLINK.NET>
To: <EUPHORIA at LISTSERV.MUOHIO.EDU>
Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2000 6:52 PM
Subject: Re: Age?


> I'm 57  (in a few hours) and started programming when I was 40; the
> coincidence just struck me.
>
> Don't start this.  I'm a young 55 but started programming back in '68 on a
> Bendix G15 and then really got into the big time on an IBM 7090 with 32K
of
> RAM.  You should have seen what happened on one of those high speed line
> printers when I put a print statement in a loop but only printed the page
> number...


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