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StuartMW
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Re: What's this?

What is that? Looks like fun I hope those folks can read binary
dave
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not in ohio

dave

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The woman is Grace Hopper (I am unsure of the Navy rank she held at the time) and the machine is "the" Univac (I suppose they didn't need model numbers at the time).

»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gr ··· e_Hopper

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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COBOL huh? I never wrote anything in COBOL although I did desk debug a program in it once.
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A COBOL developer got seriously sick so they froze his body. When they thawed him out, there was a lot of commotion. Apparently they needed this guy back alive and kicking pronto. It was nearing the year 3000. And they were encountering all kinds of Y3K bugs. It seems the Y2K coders only did a patch job 1000 years in the past.


goalieskates
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goalieskates

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Loved COBOL. Non-programmer support people could actually read it, so you didn't have to have separate documentation.

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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LOL. You do know that real programmers don't write documentation (or eat Quiche) right? Or is that your point?

sivran
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You bunch of old farts. Quit shakin your canes at us younguns.

StuartMW
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StuartMW

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Yeah? Well there's 10 kinds of people in the world: those that know computers and those that don't

Dustyn
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»www.youtube.com/watch?v= ··· C8yFrZKI