I think it is beyond repair...

[bertsmobile1]

Well I wasn't introduced to computer until around 1982 so we at using 1200 baud modems then. It is strange now to think running a business accounting program on a 5 mb hard drive. Now I need over 300 mb just to back up my current accounting program is still taking up 3.5 gigs on HD.

I started life in computers with the UNSW's brand spanking new IBM 360 running Fortran ( Horrid OS ) and optical mark cards .
Then when both teaching & studying at TAFE we got a PDP 10 running basic but still optical mark cards
Then it was NSW IT to do the MSc ( never finished ) and for that I had to learn Cobal which is near impossible to proramme integral calculus with but at least we had monochrome terminals to use so I could get errored out in real time rather than marking up a 10" high stack of cards to be tossed out because of a smudge from the 3 B pencils .
Went into the "real" word and it was back to DEC gear , most of which was analogue so promptly forgot everything and was sound in the belief that I could conquer the world with nothing better than the HP 21 calculator

 

[Hammermechanicman]

LOL Don't mention COBOL, Fortran and punch cards around my wife. It will give her nightmares. She worked with that stuff at NCR way back when.

 

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