Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
Wanted urgently: People who know a half century-old computer language so states can process unemployment claims
https://www.cnn.com/2020/04/08/business/coronaviru...
Sorry, this story is a bit late, but...
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
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My father does know COBOL. Back at the beginning April, I let him know that New Jersey was looking for COBOL programmers. He said they'd have to pay him in 1000 rolls of toilet paper a month. I get the feeling he really doesn't want to un-retire.
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
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RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
Note that a lot of the problems isn't the COBOL programs, per se, but the fact that the programs are running on 30-yr old computers.
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Never went to business school, so I never learned COBOL.
After school, I learned BASIC and went on from there...
Mike McCann, PE, SE (WA, HI)
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
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Mike Halloran
Corinth, NY, USA
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RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
TTFN (ta ta for now)
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In fact the Ag school had a few hours each night just for their jobs. Mostly early climate model work (mid-70's).
I had some programs that ran 2 or 3 boxes of cards. I have one single card left.
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P.E. Metallurgy
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Yes I also went through the IBM360 - punch card time: waiting for a long time for hundreds of cards to be read and then the #$@% process stop because of an error.
Andries
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I have always heard that pronounced;
"WATFOR?"
Not WAT-IV but Waterloo Fortran.
Bill
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
My point is that I have heard WATFOR many times, but this is the first time I have heard it called WATFIV.
Different circles I guess.
Bill
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"Why not the best?"
Jimmy Carter
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TTFN (ta ta for now)
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First Fortran class is in the fall of 1970 on a CDC-3300 at Northeastern. Used Fortran up to the mid-80's but by then we were on terminals.
Used a lot of punch cards when I was a NC programmer at Corning Glass writing IBM APT-Ac programs to cut stainless steel and Inconel molds for glass products. The heat of the glass would eventually cause the molds to crack as they went through the heat and cooling process.
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John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
The first system that I was allowed to actually use hands-on had a teletype as the master console and that was where any system-level error messages would be sent, and it was so loud that when it did start 'typing' out a message, everyone would freeze as it would invoke a moment of fear since that sound was often a precursor to a system crash.
John R. Baker, P.E. (ret)
EX-Product 'Evangelist'
Irvine, CA
Siemens PLM:
UG/NX Museum:
The secret of life is not finding someone to live with
It's finding someone you can't live without
RE: Anyone with any old skills that they might want to dust off...
TTFN (ta ta for now)
I can do absolutely anything. I'm an expert! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKorP55Aqvg
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P.E. Metallurgy, consulting work welcomed
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I too learned programming on IBM 80 character (2000 Florida Palm Beach County) voting punch cards. We were told that, in the basement of the engineering building, for graduate students only, there was ONE computer with a cathode ray screen where you could actually type in commands and see them executed.
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Here is my college CNC project, complete with the punched paper tape.
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JHG
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At Cal Poly, first Fortran class was punch cards, second I found out about the terminals and TECO.
At Amada, all our CNCs were punched paper tape. We had various primitive program prep systems, I think most of them were developed in some form of BASIC at first.
I created my first training materials using Wordstar on a CPM machine, output to a dot matrix printer.
The first CNC machine I ran that didn't use paper tape was the Prima Optimo system, in 78-ish. That was a whole 'nother adventure.
Jay Maechtlen
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