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3. Interesting. My first courses in College involved using... tapes

Reply to lapfog_1 (Reply #2)

Tue Sep 25, 2018, 09:11 PM

Sep 2018

And I actually remember being able to "read" some of the commands looking at the configurations of the holes.

And later came Basics. Basic? I really liked it but soon came the personal computer and the spreadsheets and that was it.

But then, I also used slide rule...

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Do You Know Cobol? If So, There Might Be a Job for You. [View all] question everything Sep 2018 OP

It's been years, but I have done Cobol programming. CentralMass Sep 2018 #1

yes, I used to teach COBOL in college... hated it lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #2

Interesting. My first courses in College involved using... tapes question everything Sep 2018 #3

paper tape... or punch cards on a "reel" of paper... (actually usually fanfold. lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #5

I took two semesters of COBOL in college in 1991-92 padfun Sep 2018 #4

actually it was intended to be as far away from Assembly as possible lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #7

Languages padfun Sep 2018 #10

There was a call for COBOL programmers back around Y2K TlalocW Sep 2018 #6

yes, it would be hard to have someone current with Python or something lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #8

Someday take a look at an IBM Z14. sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #12

oh, and there is still another "Y2K" issue coming up lapfog_1 Sep 2018 #9

Yes, I do, but retired. My 48 year old son is a programmer, who sinkingfeeling Sep 2018 #11