Could be a busy day

[maltrab]

I have my son in law,Daughter and Grandson visiting us today,when they arrive I am replacing the CPU on his computer for a faster one,adding a SSD hard drive and moving his current software to the new SSD,once that is done I will be fitting a water cooling system to my own computer,fingers crossed everyone

 

[wstol]

As long as you don't mind doing that kind of stuff, shouldn't be too awkward I imagine.

Hell for me.

 

[barmpot]

Do not mention upgrades to me - my Mac has been upgraded as far as it can but it meant the Labelwriter no longer worked as the old one could not cope with the newer operating OS X.

I was advised not to use Chrome as it does not suit a Mac and then found that Safari and Firefox would not let me read a Google mail account which I use for an organisation! They suggest setting up an IMAP mail facility but that means 13,500 + e mails to be down loaded! And then all read and archived!!

 

[Pearl]

Parden?

 

[barmpot]

Parden?

Possibly why I can not get it working - might as well be in another language.

Mind you we used to have those on computers - hands up who remembers BASIC, COBOL or FORTRAN? When we had programmers and systems analysts ... none of this PC rubbish!

 

[Pearl]

Possibly why I can not get it working - might as well be in another language.

Mind you we used to have those on computers - hands up who remembers BASIC, COBOL or FORTRAN? When we had programmers and systems analysts ... none of this PC rubbish!

Pardon?

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Started in IT in 1980 first job was a Cobol Programmer , wrote programs on coding sheets by hand ,sent them to a pool of people who transferred onto punch card , input to mainframe via a card reader , had to book a slot[max 1 hour] to use a green screen terminal to correct coding when program failed to run . The amount of storage on an atypical usb stick now was the size of half a house . I was recently taken back in time on BBC programme Collectaholic where a guy had bought up lots of of old computer kit and had it stored in 3 large buildings recognised lots of it from my early days.

 

[dick]

I'm a lot like Cleggy on this " If its technical I'll never understand it!":me:

 

[Marianna]

Possibly why I can not get it working - might as well be in another language.

Mind you we used to have those on computers - hands up who remembers BASIC, COBOL or FORTRAN? When we had programmers and systems analysts ... none of this PC rubbish!

I learned those languages, as well as DCL (DIGITAL Command Language) which was used by VAX computers, when I was studying for my Associates degree in computer programming and systems analysis. My entire 8-year programming career was spent in various engineering departments so COBOL turned out to have been a waste of time. Then because the firm that employeed me abolished the engineering division and I wanted to stay with them at least long enough to vest my pension rights, I had to take a step backward and accept a librarian position in their research division. In the long run, it paid much better, but wasn't nearly as interesting. That's why I had left the field and gone back to school for programming. Thirteen years later, I retired from that job.

Marianna

 

[cciaffone]

Started in IT in 1980

Started with IBM in 1966 working on TSS/360, the world's first
multi-user time-sharing system. First terminal was an IBM selectric
typewriter mounted on a desk and connected to a 360. Did stints
on early video monitors (3270??) and VTAM, then banking and
legal systems, to really early PCs. Did assembler, Fortran,
COBOL, etc etc over the years. Sometime in the mid 90's I
kinda gave up on staying current. I am kinda stuck on old
desk-top XP PCs and torrent downloads.

Been a long long time.

chuck

 

[captain clutterbuck]

Could be an easy day

As people seem to be outlining their career history decided to provide potted version of mine . Post Cobol programming wrote System Control Language suites for then ICL now Fujitsu mainframe systems, taught myself dump cracking and got involved early on with issues related to network communications on mainframes. It eventually led me to working in a team installing , configuring and managing large Data Centre networking components for HP until I retired last year . Forgotten lots of it now ,even in such a short time, however yesterday proved useful talking to some twonk at Virgin Media after I had some issues with their Broadband service .