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To: Lane3 who wrote (99672)	2/10/2005 8:25:16 AM
From: aladin	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793648

Karen, In an ealier mail I stated that the VT-52 was introduced in 1974 and the 3270 in 1975. We were discussing the fact that 'terminals' per se did not exist in 1970. John

To: Lane3 who wrote (99672)	2/10/2005 8:29:30 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793648

I wrote my first interactive program around 1975. IBM mainframe. Dumb green terminal. It was at the Pentagon. No wonder you are retired. As I recall, programmers with experience on IBM 370 using OS/MVS and CICS were making $50,000 a year 1975 money. I think gasoline in those days were still under 50 cents a gallon and you could buy a brand new Ford Mustang for less than $5,000. You could have purchased a Brownstone townhouse in Georgetown for less than $50,000. Time goes by so quickly everything seems to be a blur. We were in late 1960 and early 1970's a major technological revolution and we didn't (at least I didn't) know it at the time. You are really a heavy weight techie and you are sort of playing dumb around here wrt to tech. People around here think the computer revolution started with Steve Jobs and Bill Gates. They didn't know that by the time they came around there were tens of thousands of techies (if not in the hundred thoudands) like you working in the computer industry.