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Strategies & Market Trends : Booms, Busts, and Recoveries
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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (19533)6/8/2002 12:07:21 AM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 74559
 
Gidday KC, Kiwi wines are doing well. We have lots of Kiwi whines too [mostly of interest only in our local media]. The acidic plonk of my youth is as out of date as the Fortran IV punch cards I used to mess around with in the dead of night when I could book time on the punch machines. Log tables, slide rules. Walking miles to school, barefoot. A used bicycle costing a year's newspaper delivery money. Times were tough.

I have no sympathy for the rich, whining brats of the cyberspace revolution. Pay of $1 an hour is heaps. They can buy a scientific calculator after a day's work. I had to work for a month to buy my first one. A used car would take them only a year to buy and it would be a classy piece of equipment compared with what I could buy after a year's work.

You'd be amused to know that I met a computer programmer in 1976 at Lake Paudash [in Ontario] and we were discussing the future for programmers. I thought that surely after a few years all the programmes that were needed would be written and demand for programmers would drop. How wrong that idea was!! A huge, vast, booming industry took off and is still growing like crazy with no sign of reducing [though the pay rates are].

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