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To: Mary Cluney who wrote (54905)	5/1/1998 10:08:00 PM
From: Francis Chow	Respond to of 186894

<The bad news is that you now need twice the floor space that you saved to put MVS and VM documentation - and that you need to locate the system near a nursing home for elderly and beyond systems programmers - and you need twice the energy saved to run the respirators. You win some, you lose some> I started programming in Grade 8. We wrote our programs in FORTRAN by coloring in little ovals on mark sense cards. The person with the best assignment mark that week got the honor of bringing the long box containing all the cards down to the Ministry of Education where a wonderful machine called the 360 lived. We tried hard to play tricks on the machine - the best one actually elicited a response from the operator, "please do not put staples in the cards . . ." I didn't feel like a geek - the word did not exist yet. I belonged to a privileged elite. A far cry from today's "Learn Java in 21 Days" crowd . . . <sigh>