,,,          info about me

 I will have very little personal information here, you
 know, internet and all.  But what follows is a bit of
 info.

 After close to 50 years of Computer Work (IT), I
 retired in early 2023.  Now I am just hacking and
 learning new tech.

 My first professional programming job was while I was
 in college, it was FORTRAN IV for HEW (a Government
 Department) on punch-cards, I loved that work.  In
 college I majored in business because there were no
 majors for the business side of computers at the time.
 All computer courses were considered part of the Math
 Department, so I would have had to majored in Math as
 opposed to Business.  At the time, I thought knowing
 the Business side of the world would be better than
 theoretical math, looking back, seems I was right.

 After graduation I had a very hard time finding an IT
 position, but I finally did at Wang Labs.  Before that
 I worked odd Manufacturing Jobs for a year.  The
 economy was bad when I graduated.  So, when I went into
 IT, I took a pay cut, but I really wanted to work in
 IT.  Little did I know that kind of work would become
 as important as it is now.  When I started, we where
 paid poorly and was considered 'not real'.  But within
 a few years, our outlook changed greatly.

 So, for the young people here, if you like IT and
 looking for work, keep trying, eventually you will find
 a position.  And I am sure you will see big, if not
 bigger changes, as I did over the years.

 Operating Systems used professionally
 =====================================

 List of Operating Systems Languages I used at work, in
 order of first used.

 * CDC 7600, forgot the OS
 * Wang VS
 * Wang 2200
 * IBM Interact
 * IN/ix - a 16 bit UNIX
 * SunOS
 * AIX
 * VMS

 Languages used professionally
 =============================

 List of Programming Languages I used at work, in order
 of first used.

 * FORTRAN
 * COBOL
 * PROCEDURE - a proprietary scripting language
 * JCL
 * c
 * sh
 * DEC DCL
 * SAP ABAP

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