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To: michael97123 who wrote (25896)1/23/2004 1:03:20 PM
From: mistermj  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793756
 
Totally agree mike. I'm sure many tears were cast for the out of work candlemakers once upon a time too...it all worked out. ;-)

Actually you can make some pretty good coin making candles these days...just set up a kiosk at the Mall and sell at those frilly foo foo craft market thingy's.I have a friend from high school that made his million doing that...by 40.



To: michael97123 who wrote (25896)1/23/2004 1:45:02 PM
From: LindyBill  Respond to of 793756
 
What replaces the call center and tech jobs

The companies are doing everything they can to get rid of the "Call Center" jobs. You will see more and more Internet interaction. Look at what happened to Bank Tellers.



To: michael97123 who wrote (25896)1/23/2004 2:00:50 PM
From: kumar  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 793756
 
IBM 1410 mainframe ...

Ahem, cough cough, splutter splutter.

Its IBM 1401 - I watched the same show. Interestingly, He was talking about it in 1960's. I worked with that beast in mid 1980. Autocoder, no concept of a disk. We had a card reader/card puncher, a printer (IBM 1403), and a 8 inch tape drive.

Them were the days, when we had to program, keeping in mind the "real memory" available : Made DOS look very advanced!