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The old RPG II language used binary logic markers, called "indicators" to set logical conditions for the path that a program would follow through to completion. There were 99 such indicators, plus several specially designed ones to facilitate level-breaks and matching records.
...read moreYou may be old enough to remember that the old IBM System/34 had a diskette drive that had a smoked plastic door set on a hinge. The drive permitted up to twenty diskettes to be loaded into two cartridge containers, to facilitate the copying of large files to the limited media size of eight and half inch black diskettes.
...read moreThe box containing the brand new IBM PC was sent directly to remote site, where a novice to personal computing was instructed to assemble the various pieces and connect the RS232 cable to the modem that I had shipped separately.
Unfortunately, she complained over the phone, that the RS232 cable was "broken".
"How could that be?" I asked. "It's brand new!"
...read moreEach weekend I used to go to one of these big football-sized datacenters to perform database reorgs and backups when no one was using the system. Late one Saturday night in 1985, the chiller system for the mainframes failed. They only had a skeleton crew of operators on hand and the one who knew how to restart the thing could not be found.
...read moreSeveral years back I had to install a printer
... in a classroom
... while the class was going on.
The printer had arrived late and was needed for that class.
...read moreI just recently got DSL in my area. It is working great and I love it compard to dail-up it is a god-send. Now the problem ... in order to trun my computer off for the night I must unplug the modem from electricity or the computer acts as if I clicked on restart. I have gone in and disable the restart and a few other things that I found on microsofts website. But it will still do it.
...read moreIn the early '80s a growing company in our rural neighborhood suffered a catastrophic flood. The river backed up and ran through the accounting department where an IBM System/36 was housed.
...read moreCustomer called me, their server went down and won't power up. So I go there to check out the situation.
...read moreOn the old mainframe reports would come out on large greenbar paper and would be several inches thick. One lady in A/R comes storming into IT with the big thick ream pointing out a math error in one of the columns. Through some research and debugging, the programmer found the error in logic and recompiled the program.
...read moreOur Help Desk received a phone call from an admin assistant who stated something was very wrong with her computer. User would make settings on it throughout the day, turn it off for the night, and the next morning all settings would simply NOT be there -gone!
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